Curriculum Vitae

2025- Group Leader, Computational Biophysics Group, Molecular BioMechanics Dept. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz (Germany)
2021-2024 Staff Scientist, Molecular Biomechanics Group, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg (Germany)
2017-2020 Group leader, Max Planck Tandem Group on Computational Biophysics, University of los Andes, Bogotá (Colombia)
2012-2017 Postdoc, at the group of Prof. Frauke Gräter, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Heidelberg (Germany)
2015-spring Visiting Postdoc, at the group of Prof. Alfredo Alexander-Katz, MIT, Cambridge (USA)
2011 Postdoc, at the group of Prof. Bert de Groot, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen (Germany)
2007-2011 Doctor in Natural Sciences,
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry/University of Göttingen, Göttingen (Germany),
Supervisor: Prof. Bert de Groot.
Thesis project: Understanding the molecular machinery of aquaporins through molecular dynamics simulations
2005-2007 Master of Science on Physics,
National University of Colombia, Bogotá (Colombia),
Supervisor: Prof. José Daniel Muñoz.
Thesis project: Brownian Dynamics simulations of the rotation of the F1-ATPase molecular motor
2000-2005 Physics BSc,
National University of Colombia, Bogotá (Colombia),
Supervisor: Prof. Ramón Fayad and Prof. José Daniel Mu&ntildeoz.
Thesis project: The Gramicidin A Channel: A comparison between an elemental permeation model and a Brownian Dynamics simulation.
1994-1999 High school,
Colegio CAFAM, Bogotá (Colombia)