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	Name:	Gabriel Julio CUELLO
	Title:	PhD in Physics
	Sex:	Male
	Birth date:	April 1st, 1965
	Birth place:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
	Citizenship:	Argentine
	Marital status:	Married (2 children)
	Present position:	Instrument Scientist, Institut Laue Langevin, France
		Adjoint Researcher, Argentine Council for Scientific Research, Argentina
		Adjoint Professor, Comahue University, Argentina

• M.Sci. in Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics Faculty, Córdoba National University, Argentina.
  Date: December 23, 1987.
  Dissertation (in Spanish): Determination of backscattered electron spectrum by Monte Carlo method.
  Supervisor: Dr. J.A. Riveros de la Vega.

• Ph.D in Physics, Balseiro Institute, Cuyo National University, Argentina.
  Date: August 8, 1996.
  Dissertation (in Spanish): Synthetic function for neutron scattering in solids.
  Supervisor: Dr. J.R. Granada.

Postgraduate Courses

• Solid State Physics, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, September 1987.
• Neutronic Measurements^*, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, February-June 1988.
• Nuclear Physics^*, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, August-December 1988.
• Quantum Mechanics II^*, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, February-June 1989.
• Topics on Neutron Physics, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, August-December 1989.
• Theoretical and Experimental Workshop on Digital and Control Systems (Electronic), Bariloche Atomic Center, Argentina, October 1989
• X-ray Crystallography, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, October 1989.
• Topics on Thermodynamic and Phase Equilibrium I^*, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, February-April 1991.
• Hardware and Software of Personal Computers, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, February-June 1992.
• Topics on Thermodynamic and Phase Equilibrium II^*, Instituto Balseiro, Cuyo University, Argentina, October-December 1992.
• Seminar: What is the role of the reason and the experience in Galileo's metodology?, Facultad de Humanidades, Comahue University, Argentina, November 1995.
• Introductory Course on Neutron Scattering, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, October 6-7, 1996.
• Physics of Glasses and Disordered Materials, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, September 22-25, 1997.
• Muon Science and MuSR in Physics, Chemistry and Materials, St Andrews University, St Andrews, Scotland, August 17-28, 1998.

^* Ph.D. requirement.

Current Projects

• Structure, equilibrium and transformations of stable and metastable phases in condensed systems
  Spanish Council for Scientific Research and Spanish Agency for International Cooperation.
  Responsibles: Dr. Francisco Javier Bermejo Barrera and Dr. Armando Fernández Guillermet.

• Condensed systems at nanoscopic scale: Development and fundamental applications of nanostructured materials
  Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
  Responsible: Dr. Francisco Javier Bermejo Barrera

• Hydrogeochemistry and Toxicology of Arsenic Contamination in Argentinean Pampa Groundwater (PAMPAS)
  European Commission Project: Quality of Life and Management of Living Resources.
  Responsible: Dr. Laurent Charlet

Finished Projects

• Low frequency dynamics in disordered media: Anarmonicity and disorder relationships
  Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC). Project PB95-0072-C03-01.
  Responsible: Dr. Francisco Javier Bermejo Barrera.

• Muon spectrometry in the study of mass and charge transport in condensed matter
  Spanish Council for Scientific Research and Russian Research Centre "Kurchatov Institute"
  Responsibles: Dr. Francisco Javier Bermejo Barrera and Dr. Vyacheslav Storchak.

• Study of the hydrogen interaction with metallic materials
  Argentinian Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion, PICT No 03-00000-00680
  Responsible: Dr. Jorge Sofo

• A new set of microstrip detectors for the diffractometer for the liquid and amorphous systems
  Institut Laue Langevin, Project D4C
  Responsible: Dr. Gabriel Cuello

• Neutron diffraction in Zr-Nb alloys CNEA 93.26.1 and Comahue University B038, Argentina
  Responsible: Dr. J. Rolando Granada

• Inelasticity and multiple scattering in neutron scattering experiments
  CNEA 93.26.5, Argentina
  Responsible: Dr. J. Rolando Granada

• Neutron scattering in solids
  CNEA 93.26.7, Argentina
  Responsible: Dr. J. Rolando Granada

• UV radiation monitoring in Bariloche
  Comahue University, Argentina
  Responsibles: Dr. Ernesto Crivelli and Dr. Gabriel Cuello

• Development of a synthetic model to evaluate neutron scattering cross sections for solids (Ph.D. Thesis).

• Development of Monte Carlo codes for electron and neutron scattering simulations, dead-time effects in nuclear measurements and geological sample generation for statistical analysis.

• Assembly of neutron scattering, diffraction and transmission TOF experiments, involving set-up of data acquisition line using modular nuclear electronics (standard NIM) and assembly of dedicated targets and moderators in an Electron LINAC. Diffraction experiments performed using a time-focused diffractometer, at a backscattering angle on a constant-Qt surface.

• Study and development of models to understand spatial relations, formation processes and thermo-dynamics of metallic alloys and other related systems, which present different structural phases, particularly alloys of transition metals (ZrNb, TiV, ZrTi, TiHf).

• Dead-time measurements in data acquisition systems and development of a model to analyze the effect of dead-time in pulsed source experiments (TOF experiments).

• Low frequency dynamics of disordered systems and glass transition, particularly of ethanol and glycerol. Density of states calculation from inelastic and quasielastic neutron scattering experiments, involving multiphonon corrections.

• Assiduous user of large neutron facilities: ISIS (MARI and LAD instruments) at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, UK; IPNS (qualified user of QENS and HRMECS instruments) at Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA; HFR (IN1, IN5, IN6, D1A and D1B instruments) at Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.

• Experience in programming languages (FORTRAN, BASIC, Pascal, C, Assembler), installation of PC hardware and software, and local network maintenance. Experience in Unix, VMS and MSDOS operating systems.

• Development of software for:
  • refinement of crystalline structures, particularly for neutron diffraction experiments,
  • data acquisition, specially for time-of-flight and time-correlation experiments,
  • calculation of Bragg reflections produced by crystalline structures,
  • statistical analysis, particularly for clustering analysis,
  • obtention of the vibrational density of states from inelastic neutron scattering experiments.

• Scientist responsible of the neutron diffractometer for liquids and amourphous systems (D4) at the High Flux Reactor of Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France. This work involves local contact duties and maintenance of the instrument, a two-axis neutron diffractometer.

• Leader Project during last nine months of the project of construction of a new two-axis diffractometer for liquids and amorphous materials (D4C). Comissioning of the new instrument.

• Development of regrouping software producing final spectra from raw data, i.e., converting neutrons-by-cell from several detector positions into a single angular spectrum. This software includes monitor normalization, dead-time correction (monitor and detector), efficiency correction and Q-scale conversion.

• Assembly of neutron diffraction experiments in rather complex environments suitable for amorphous or liquid systems. For example, magnetic levitation, air levitation or high temperature furnaces, high-pressure or gas handling cells. Also more standard environments like orange cryostats, cryofurnaces or vanadium furnaces.

• Obtention of partial structure factors for amorphous systems by means of neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution.

• Structure refinement by means of neutron powder diffraction and standard software (FullProf).

• Development of software to refine intra-molecular structure from static structure factor of molecular systems.

• Some experience performing and analyzing XRPD and EXAFS at ESRF.

• Programming web pages in HTML. As example, see D4's web page: www.ill.fr/YellowBook/D4/home.html

• Head of Physics Department, Bariloche Regional Center, Comahue University, Argentina.
  01/12/89-31/01/92 and 15/02/94-31/03/97.

• Member of Administration Council, Bariloche Regional Center, Comahue University, Argentina.
  15/02/94-31/07/96.

• Member of Academic Council, Bariloche Regional Center, Comahue University, Argentina.
  01/08/96-31/03/97.

• Member (Professor) of Board of Directors, Bariloche Regional Center, Comahue University, Argentina.
  26/04/94-31/03/97

• Institute for Structure of Matter, Council for Scientific Research, Madrid, Spain
  Post-doctoral scientist. 1997-1998.

• ISIS Spallation Neutron Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK.
  Assiduous user 1997-1998. Instruments: MARI, LAD.

• IPNS Spallation Neutron Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA.
  Qualified user 1997-1999. Instruments: QENS, HRMECS

• High-Flux Reactor, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
  Assiduous user 1997-2001. Instruments: IN1, IN5, IN6, D1A, D1B.

• High-Flux Reactor, Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
  Responsible Scientist for D4 diffractometer, 1999-2004.

Teaching

• Student Assistant, General Physics, Córdoba University, Argentina, July 1985 - February 1988.
• Graduate Assistant, General Physics, Comahue University, Argentina, April - November 1988.
• Lecturer Assistant, General Physics, Comahue University, Argentina, December 1988 - March 1990.
• Assistant Professor, General Physics, Comahue University, Argentina, April 1990 - September 1999.
• Lecturer Assistant, Balseiro Institute, Cuyo University, Argentina, February 1999 - January 2000.
• Lecturer Assistant, Maison de Magistères, Joseph Fourier University, France, April 2000 and April 2001.

Participation as Member of Academic Committees

• Nine oppositions for Professor and Assistant positions, Comahue University, between 1992-1999.

• Ph.D in Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid, October 13, 1997.
  "Microscopic dynamics of a strong glass", by Ricardo Fernández Perea.

• Ph.D in Physics, Autonomous University of Madrid, November 20, 1997.
  "Time-position correlations at microscopic scales in molecular glasses", by María Rosa Fayos Carrió.

Post-doc supervision

• Nines Arillo
  Subject:

• Oleg Sobolev
  Subject:

• Gabriela Aurelio
  Subject:

Students supervision

• Supervisor of Summer Fellowship.
  Student: Juan Jerónimo Blostein, Summer Fellowship 1997, Balseiro Institute, Cuyo University, Argentina.
  Subject: Order and disorden in the omega phase: Neutron transmission in a Zr-Nb alloy.

• Co-supervisor of a PhD student
  Student: Mónica Jiménez Ruiz, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science Fellowship, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain.
  Subject: Vitreous transition in systems with orientational disorder. (1997-1999).

• Co-supervisor of a PhD student
  Student: Gabriela Aurelio, Argentine Council of Scientific and Technical Research Fellowship, Balseiro Institute, Cuyo University, Argentina.
  Subject: (1998-2003).

• Co-supervisor of a PhD student
  Student: Juan Jerónimo Blostein, Argentine Council of Scientific and Technical Research Fellowship, Balseiro Institute, Cuyo University, Argentina.
  Subject: (1999- ).

• Supervisor of DESS student
  Student: Bouchta El Montaser, ILL Fellowship, Claude Bernard University, Lyon I, France
  Subject: Corrections in diffraction experiments on liquids and amorphous systems (March-August 2002).

• Supervisor of DUT student
  Student: Marion Girard, ILL Fellowship, Grenoble, France
  Subject: Corrections in diffraction experiments on liquids and amorphous systems (March-August 2002).

• Supervisor of DEA student
  Student: Alejandro Fernández Martínez, ILL Fellowship, Oviedo University, Spain
  Subject: Arsenic sorption in calcite and gypsum. (2004)

• Co-supervisor of a PhD student
  Student: Viviana Cristiglio, CNRS-Région Centre Fellowship, Orléans University, France.
  Subject: (2005-).

• Co-supervisor of a post-graduate student
  Student: Alejandro Fernández Martínez, Spanish Research Ministry, Oviedo University, Spain.
  Subject: (2005-2006).

• Co-supervisor of a PhD student
  Student: Alejandro Fernández Martínez, UJF Fellowship, Joseph Fourier University, France.
  Subject: (2006-).

Dictated postgraduate courses

• Interaction of neutrons with matter
  Balseiro Institute, Cuyo University, Argentina.
  August - September 1999, 60 hours.

• Tutorial HERCULES: Structure of liquids and amorphous systems by neutron diffraction experiments
  Maison de Magistères, Joseph Fourier University, Grenoble, France.
  April 2000, 6 hours; April 2001, 6 hours, March 2002, 6 hours.