Tinker Visiting Professors

Fields of interest
Environmental and Energy Economics, Industrial Organization

Winter 2026

Juan-Pablo Montero is Professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC-Chile), Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University's Business School, and Research Associate at MIT’s CEEPR. He has held visiting positions at the MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Stanford’s CLAS and Economics. He received Bachelor and M.Sc. degrees in Civil Engineering from PUC-Chile and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from MIT. 

His research work concentrates on industrial organization, environmental and resource economics and has appeared, among others, in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the...

Fields of interest
Electrical Engineering, Industrial Engineering

Winter, Spring and Autumn 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 Department at PUC-Rio...

Fields of interest
Memory Studies, Cultural Studies

Winter and Spring 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...