Tinker Visiting Professors

Fields of interest
Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering

January to June, 2026; September to December, 2026

Alexandre Street holds an M.Sc. and a D.Sc. (PhD) in electrical engineering (emphasis in operations research) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 2003 to 2007, he participated in several consulting projects related to strategic bidding in the Brazilian energy auctions and market regulation at the Power System Research Consulting (PSR), Rio de Janeiro. From August 2006 to March 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain. 

At the beginning of 2008, he joined the Electrical Engineering...

Fields of interest
Memory Studies, Cultural Studies

January to May, 2026

Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and a Professor of Latin American Literature at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín where she chairs the M.A. program in Latin American Literatures. She is the author of Women in Argentina, Early Travel Narratives, La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff and Malmö. She has coedited Mujeres en viaje, Memoria y ciudadanía, Dictionary of Latin American Studies, Sitios de la memoria: México Post ´68, The Cambridge History of Latin American Women’s Literature, Entre mundos y lenguas: las cartas de...