Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contact: mleone@utdt.edu - juli.leone@gmail.com
I hold a degree in Biotechnology from Universidad Nacional de Quilmes (UNQ, 2004) and a PhD in Basic and Applied Sciences (UNQ, 2010).
I am a CONICET Researcher at Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, an Associate Researcher at the Center for the Evaluation of Evidence-Based Policies (CEPE), an Invited Professor in the Education Area of the School of Government at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT), and an Invited Researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL).
My research focuses on how biological timing, school schedules, sleep, and educational trajectories and outcomes interact during adolescence. I lead the Chronobiology of Education in Argentina (CEA) research group, where I combine chronobiology, school-based research, and large-scale administrative education data to study how the temporal organization of schooling aligns with adolescents’ biological rhythms and to translate this evidence into tools that can inform education policy.
I also teach Human Behavior in the undergraduate Social Sciences program at UTDT.
Cronobiología de la Educación en Argentina
I am pleased to announce that the first National Map of School Start Times is now available, a systematic survey of secondary school start times across Argentina.
📘 Report: https://bit.ly/documento_MapaHorarios
National School Start Time average (Morning timing): 07:31
🧭 Evidence for educational policies
Leone MJ & Gerez P. Mapa Nacional de Horarios de Inicio Escolar en el nivel secundario de Argentina. Centro de Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). November 2025.