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ORCID: 0000-0001-7162-146X
ResearcherID: D-3374-2015
Hugo
Simkin
Assistant Professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires
Sociology
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, Argentina
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About

For the last years, I've been teaching and researching the impact of migration on mental health. My research is focused on ex-pats around the world dealing with mental or emotional issues, such as anxiety, depression, trauma-related disorders, grief, or relationship problems. 

Professional Skills
Treatment
Psychopathology
Data Analysis
Academic Writing
Research Methodology
Statistical Analysis
Counseling
Clinical Assessment
Mental Illness
Psychological Assessment
Work Experience
Assistant Researcher
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas November 2019 - Present
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
CONICET is the main agency that fosters science and technology in Argentina. They all operate across the whole country -from the Antarctic up to the Puna, from the Andes Mountain Range up to the Argentine Sea- in 15 Scientific and Technological Centers (CCT), 11 research and transference centers (CIT), a Multidisciplinary Research Center and more than 280 Institutes and exclusive CONICET Centers under the scope of national universities and other institutions.
Associate Professor
Universidad de Buenos Aires August 2008 - Present
Argentina
- Dictation of theoretical and applied seminars on Social Psychology
- Partial and final examination of students.
Visiting Scholar
Tel Aviv University March 2020 - July 2020
Tel Aviv, Israel
Social Psychology: Issues on cross cultural research. Course number: 1041.3595.01
The course surveys key topics in social psychology within a cross-cultural perspective. By combining psychology and sociology, we learn how to use contemporary psychological theories to interpret and evaluate empirical research, and to apply them to everyday life. The course has a strong focus on promoting cross-cultural research connecting students from Tel Aviv University and the University of Buenos Aires through an online learning platform. Topics to be covered include: historical, philosophical and epistemological perspectives inSocial Psychology, attitude formation, conformity and group influence, stereotypes, prejudiceand intergroup relations, social identity theory, self, self-esteem and self-concept, prosocialbehavior and intimate relationship
Postdoctoral Researcher
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas April 2017 - November 2019
Buenos Aires
CONICET has Fellowships Programs addressed to young Argentine and foreign university graduates who want to do their PhD studies and conduct postdoctoral research work. Postdoctoral Fellowships are addressed to the research activities of candidates who had completed their PhD.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Agencia I+D+i March 2016 - March 2017
The National Agency for the Promotion of Research, Technological Development and Innovation, also known as "Agencia I+D+i" is a body dependent on the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina, dedicated to promoting and financing of scientific and technological projects.
Education
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Mar 2011 - Mar 2016
Social Psychology
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Jan 2010 - Dec 2012
Cognitive Psychology
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Mar 2004 - Dec 2009
Psychology
University of Buenos Aires
Post-doctoral degree in Social Sciences , Social Sciences
The aim of the Postdoctoral Program of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires is the promotion and consolidation of scientific research by graduates of recognized doctorates. This production will also be aimed at enriching the possibilities for inter-institutional exchange at the national and international level, for which the program provides conditions of academic excellence and the dissemination of research. Candidates must develop a research plan within research program or project developed in the Faculty. Once the research plan report has been completed and evaluated, the Faculty will issue the postdoctoral certification.
Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) , Social Psychology

The doctorate is the highest academic degree granted by the Faculty of Psychology. It constitutes the development and improvement of an area of knowledge, whose universality it must attend, within a framework of a high level of academic excellence that allows obtaining authentic original contributions in the chosen field. The objective of my doctoral dissertation was to analyze whether there are relationships between spirituality, religiosity, and subjective well-being within the framework of the five-factor model and theory in a sample composed of 336 university students from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Master's Degree , Cognitive Psychology
MSc in Cognitive Psychology and Learning (FLACSO / Autonomous University of Madrid)
The purpose of this master is to provide rigorous and updated education in reference to the study of the learning processes by means of an adequate training concerning the analysis of the cognitive processes, and the promotion of the development of methodological and theoretical analysis skills.
This master is oriented to professionals wishing to conduct research and professionals interested in establishing more significant relationships between theory and practice as well. It contributes to an education that allows them to participate in areas such as schools, educational administration, business training and other areas where learning takes place in more informal contexts.
Master's Degree research thesis titled "Personality and Self Esteem"
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Bachelor's degree , Psychology
The Bachelor's degree in Psychology objective is to provide a scientific approach to psychological problems through training in different areas and fields that favour students’ options in their future practice. The plan offers an outlook that integrates the working fields of psychologists: education, health, justice and work; and it allows students to be informed about specific problematic and acquire conceptual, methodological and technical tools concerning evaluation and research in each field.
Membership
Member
May 2019 - Permanent
Interamerican Society of Psychology
Project
PICT2019-00408. Personality tratis, spirituality, religion and subjective well-being in the general population of Buenos Aires and Jerusalem
January 2021 - January 2023
The present study aims to explore relationships between the personality traits, religion, spirituality and subjective well-being in the general population of Buenos Aires and Jerusalem. The sample will be non-probabilistic by quota, consisting of 200 people between 20 and 65 years old. ASPIRES, NEO-PI-R, SWLS and ABS measures are used to explore our study variables.
UBACyT 20020190200244BA. Motivation for migration, centrality of event, religion, spirituality, and mental health in Argentine Immigrants in Israel
January 2020 - December 2021
There are an estimated 50,000 immigrants from Argentine Jewish communities living in Israel, making them the largest Latin American Jewish group in that country. This is to be expected, as Argentina has the third largest Jewish community in America after the United States and Canada and the sixth largest in the world. Argentines´ most prevalent motivations for aliyah include financial and political factors, and anti-Semitism. Since the creation of the State of Israel, in 1948, numerous events have triggered Argentines to emigrate to Israel, including the 1976 military dictatorship in Argentina, the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy, the 1994 bombing of the Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, and the countrys´ political and economic crisis between 1999 and 2002. According to the literature, for people who emigrate due to political or economic factors, the migratory experience can become a central event in their identity, negatively impacting on mental health. At the same time, the relationship between the centrality of migration as a traumatic event and mental health could be modulated by religiosity and spirituality. The aim of this study is to explore the relationship between the motivation for migration, centrality of the event, religiosity, spirituality and mental health in 480 Argentinians living in the City of Tel Aviv, Israel. It is a cross-sectional correlational study. Different psychological scales will be used to measure the variables of interest (ASPIRES, BCES, ME, LSB-50).
UBACyT 20020170200395BA Self steem and centrality of traumatics events whithin the five factor personality model in religious, atheits and agnostics high school students in the Autonumus City of Buenos Aires
January 2018 - December 2019
The present study aims to explore relationships between centrality of traumatic events, personality traits and self-esteem in a sample of 480 high school students of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. The design is transversal, correlational.
UBACyT 20020150200259BA Self- Esteem, Spirituality and Religion within the Five Factor Model of Personality in High-School Students
January 2017 - December 2018
At present, it is suggested that the five personality factors are related to self-esteem in adolescents. It has been recentlyobserved that spirituality could be understood as the sixth factor . Although different studies have been found within the international community, there are few studies that explore these relationships in the local context. For this reason, the present project intends to explore this relationship in a sample of 500 middle-level students from the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. A cross-sectional, correlational design is proposed Different techniques will be used to evaluate the study variables.
UBACyT 20020110200135 - Formal and informal therapeutic strategies implemented by professionals and users of the health system of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires coping with depression
2012 - 2015
Aim: 1) to know the reception that therapeutic proposals of the professional mental health field have, by those who suffer from depression; 2) to know the reception that therapeutic proposals which have international consensus have, by mental health professionals; 3) to provide information to the professional of the mental health system that reduces the distance with population affected by this mental disorder; 4) to know the belief systems of those who are diagnosed as depressive and analyze their role in the election and therapeutic combination; 5) to identify the role that interpersonal factors and the therapeutic relationship hold on the implementation of formal and informal strategies of therapeutic complementarity by individuals that receive the diagnostic of depression
UBACyT 20020090200038 - Complementary therapeutic strategies in population who received diagnosis of depression in Buenos Aires: the importance of interpersonal factors and therapeutic relationship
2010 - 2012
The aim of this project is to explore complementary therapeutic strategies used by people who received a depression diagnosis by a mental health professional
UBACyT P412 - Complementary therapeutic strategies in class media who received diagnosis of depression in Buenos Aires
2008 - 2010
The aim of this project is to explore complementary therapeutic strategies used by people who received a depression diagnosis by a mental health professional (psychologist and psychiatrist for this study).
Personality, self-esteem and mental health in religious, atheist and agnostic population of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires
The aim of this proyect is to explore relationships between personality traits, self-esteem and mental health in religious, atheist and agnostic population of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Funding: PICT-2016-4147, National Agency for Scientific and Technological Promotion (ANPCyT)
Adaptation and Validation of the Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) Scale into Spanish
The aim of this proyect is to adapt the Assessment of Spirituality and Religious Sentiments (ASPIRES) scale, developed by Ralph Piedmont, for spanish speaking populations. Funding: Institutional Research Recognition Program, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires (Code: R13-251).
Teaching Experience
Social Psychology
266 | Undergraduate

The course surveys key topics in social psychology within a cross-cultural perspective. By combining psychology and sociology, we will learn how to use contemporary psychological theories to interpret and evaluate empirical research, and to apply them to everyday life. The course has a strong focus on promoting cross-cultural research connecting students from Tel Aviv University and the University of Buenos Aires through an online learning platform. Topics to be covered include: historical, philosophical and epistemological perspectives in Social Psychology, attitude formation, conformity and group influence, stereotypes, prejudice and intergroup relations, social identity theory, self, self-esteem and self-concept, prosocial behavior and intimate relationships. 

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