21 Notable alumni of National University of Cuyo
Updated: May 10, 2026 EliteDegrees
National University of Cuyo is ranked #1,887 in the world and #9 in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 21 notable alumni from National University of Cuyo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with National University of Cuyo won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.
1. Pamela Verasay
1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Pamela Fernanda Verasay is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Deputy elected in Mendoza Province since 2021. She previously served as a National Senator for Mendoza from 2015 to 2021 as well. Verasay belongs to the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
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2. Arturo Lafalla
1944-. (aged 82)
lawyer
Arturo Lafalla is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party, in Mendoza Province.
3. María Beatriz Nofal
1952-. (aged 74)
politician
economist
María Beatriz Nofal is an Argentine economist and civil servant from Mendoza. She has been president of Argentina's National Agency for Investment Development, part of the Ministry of Economy, since October 2006. She earlier served, from January 1986 until January 1989, as Under-Secretary of Industrial Development in the office of the Secretary of Industry and Foreign Trade.
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4. Sebastián Garay
1983-. (aged 43)
singer
songwriter
Sebastian Garay is a singer, musician and composer of Argentine folklore. It is considered one of the outstanding personalities of the new generation of Latin American folklorists. He is currently in production of his third album, titled Animalidad.
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5. Karen Hallberg
1964-. (aged 62)
physicist
Karen Astrid Hallberg is an Argentine scientist and professor of physics at the Balseiro Institute. and at the Bariloche Atomic Centre. She is the secretary general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. She was awarded the 2019 International L'Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science Prize for Latin America.
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6. Lucía Dammert
1972-. (aged 54)
university teacher
writer
sociologist
Lucía Dammert is a Peruvian and Chilean political scientist and politician. From March 2022 to September 2022 she was chief of advisors in the government of Gabriel Boric. During the second government of Michelle Bachelet she worked as chief of advisors for minister Mahmud Aleuy.
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7. Celso Jaque
1960-. (aged 66)
politician
economist
Celso Alejandro Jaque is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, former Argentine Ambassador to Colombia, former governor of Mendoza Province and a former senator.
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8. María Perceval
1956-. (aged 70)
diplomat
politician
María Cristina "Marita" Perceval is an Argentine politician and member of the Justicialist Party. She was the permanent representative of Argentina to the United Nations from September 2012 to February 2016, and was a national senator for Mendoza Province from 2001 to 2009.
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9. Facundo Suárez
1923-1998 (aged 75)
diplomat
politician
Facundo Suárez was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician.
10. Conrado F. Varotto
1941-. (aged 85)
physicist
Conrado Franco Varotto is a physicist who is the former executive and technical director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), Argentine space agency.
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11. Adriana Cristina Serquis
1967-. (aged 59)
physicist
researcher
Adriana Cristina Serquis is an Argentine physicist and researcher associated to the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET). From 2021 to 2024 she was president of the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). In 2014, she received the L'Oréal-UNESCO National Award For Women in Science for her contribution to the rational use of electrical energy.
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12. Estela V. Welldon
1939-. (aged 87)
psychoanalyst
psychiatrist
psychologist
physician
Estela V. Welldon is an honorary consultant psychiatrist in forensic psychotherapy at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust.
13. Aldo R. Boccaccini
1962-. (aged 64)
university teacher
nuclear engineer
materials scientist
Aldo Roberto Boccaccini is a material scientist. He is currently a Professor of Biomaterials and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany. He is also visiting professor at Imperial College London (UK).
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14. Juan Martín Maldacena
1968-. (aged 58)
university teacher
theoretical physicist
physicist
Juan Martín Maldacena is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to the foundations of string theory and quantum gravity. His most famous discovery is the AdS/CFT correspondence, a realization of the holographic principle in string theory.
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15. Liliana Bodoc
1958-2018 (aged 60)
writer
children's writer
Liliana Bodoc was an Argentine writer of fantasy.
16. Nicolás del Caño
1980-. (aged 46)
politician
Nicolás del Caño is an Argentine politician from the Socialist Workers' Party. He was twice the presidential candidate for the Workers' Left Front (FIT).
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17. Alfredo Cornejo
1962-. (aged 64)
politician
Alfredo Cornejo is an Argentine politician. He is currently Governor of Mendoza Province since 2023, a post he previously held from 2015 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021 he was a National Deputy, and from 2021 to 2023, he was a National Senator for Mendoza. From 2017 to 2021 he was president of its national committee of the Radical Civic...
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18. José Luis Gioja
1949-. (aged 77)
politician
José Luis Gioja is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, former governor of San Juan Province and former President of the Argentine Senate.
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19. Anabel Fernández Sagasti
1984-. (aged 42)
politician
Anabel Fernández Sagasti is an Argentine politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Mendoza Province since 2015. She previously served as a National Deputy from 2011 to 2015, elected in Mendoza as well. Fernández Sagasti has been the president of the Mendoza chapter of the Justicialist Party since 2020.
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20. Andrej Bajuk
1943-2011 (aged 68)
politician
economist
Andrej Bajuk, also known in Spanish as Andrés Bajuk was a Slovene politician and economist. He served briefly as Prime Minister of Slovenia in the year 2000, and was Minister of Finance in the centre-right government of Janez Janša between 2004 and 2008. He was the founder and first president of the Christian Democratic party called New Slovenia.
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21. Enrique Dussel
1934-2023 (aged 89)
theologian
university teacher
church historian
historian
philosopher
Enrique Domingo Dussel Ambrosini was an Argentine-Mexican academic, philosopher, historian and theologian. He served as the interim rector of the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México from 2013 to 2014.
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