Juan Alvarez currently works at the IANIGLA - Instituto Argentino de Nivologia, Glaciologia y Ciencias Ambientales, National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentine). Juan does research in Ecology and Forestry. Their current project is 'Effect of disturbances on ecosystem functions in the Central Monte: conserving interactions for sustainable forest use of Prosopis flexuosa (ALGARROBO) of Monte'. Juan is a professor at the National University of Cuyo (UNC), in Conservation and Management of Renewable Natural Resources.