Dr. Pereyra pursued his undergraduate studies in Physics in Caracas at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he graduated in 1991. Following this, he studied Physics at University of Maryland at College Park where he obtained his MS and PhD in 1995 and 1997. Currently, Dr Pereyra is an Associate Professor in Astrophysics at the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Dr Pereyra's research work has been largely in the development of computational models of physical systems. Currently, Dr Pereyra is working on the development of computational models of accretion disk winds in QSOs.