Dr. Pereyra pursued his undergraduate studies in Physics in Caracas at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, where he graduated in 1991. Dr. Pereyra pursued his graduate studies in Physics at the University of Maryland at College Park, where he obtained his M.S. in 1995 and his Ph.D. in 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.