Full Professor of Astronomy at the Faculty of Sciences, Universidad de la RepAblica, Montevideo, Uruguay. Formerly, I held temporal positions at the Max-Planck-Institut fA1/4r Aeronomie, Germany, and Observatorio do Valongo, Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Vice-president of Commission 20 of the International Astronomical Union Positions and Motions of Minor Planets, Comets and Satellites''. Member of the Small Bodies Names Committee of the International Astronomical Union. Asteroid 5996 was named Julioangel'' by the International Astronomical Union (Resolution July/...