Experto invitado a la Academia de Verano de la TU-Dortmund (sept. 21- Oct. 6. 2012)Grants and Awards
• Grant of the Swiss National Foundation for Science for a Postdoctoral position at the Architecture department of the ETH-Zurich. 2011
• Dortmunder Gambrinus Fellowships Award, Dortmund, March 2010
• Grant of the Swiss National Foundation for Science for a Postdoctoral position at the Architecture department of the ETH-Zurich. 2008
• Grant of the Swedish International Development and Cooperation Agency (Sida) for the attendance and involvement in the International Master Program EE&SI Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure of the Royal Institute of Technology. August 1999-August 2001
• Grant of the German Authority for Academic Exchange (DAAD) for research on the integration of Urban and Periurban Agriculture into planning. 1998-2000. Humboldt University Berlin
• Award to the Best contribution to the social and humanistic sciences of the Cuban Ministry for Higher Education for the research project: Sustainable Urban rehabilitation for the municipality of Centro Habana. January 2008. *Co-author. Havana
• Mention of the National Award of the National Physical Planning Institute (IPF) in the Category Distinguished Research Projects for: Sistemas de información en tiempo real de apoyo a los procesos de rehabilitación urbana en el Barrio Chino de La Habana (Real time information Systems for the Support of Planning Processes in Havana: Case Study China Town- Havana). Leader of the research team. November 2007.
Foreign Languages
• English
• German
Other relevant training: GIS and CAD applications to Planning, Sustainable integration of Urban Agriculture into planning tools
1. Guest lecturer at:
a. Technical University of Tampere, Finland, September. 2012
b. Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, September 2012
c. Technical Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, August 2012
d. Escola da Cidade, Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2012
e. Universidad Federal de la Suiza Italiana (SUPSI), Lugano, Suiza, julio 2010
f. Universidad Técnica de Dortmund, Dortmund, Alemania, Junio-Julio, 2010
g. Instituto de la interface Natural y Humana, ETH- Zürich, Zúrich (NSSI), Julio 2008
h. Universidad Nacional del Estado de Bahía, UNEB, Salvador de Bahía, Brasil, 2008
i. Universidad Federal Politécnica de Lausana, (EPFL), Lausana, Suiza, 2008
j. Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Managua, Nicaragua. 2008
k. Universidad Técnica de Ámsterdam, Ámsterdam, Holanda, 2008
l. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Santiago de Chile, Santiago de Chile , Chile,2007
m. Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro (UFRJ), Río de Janeiro, Brasil, 2006
n. Faculty of Architecture of the ETH-Zürich, 2005
o. Interkantonales Technikum Rapperswil, Rapperswil, Suiza, 1998 (hoz HSR)
p. Universidad de Oriente, Cuba