I have always been fascinated by how simple rules can produce remarkably complex behavior. That curiosity has guided my scientific journey, from studying chemical pattern formation to exploring the rich collective dynamics of active matter.

I began my career as a Chemical Engineer in Colombia, where I worked on nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems during my Master’s studies, in Daniel Barragan’s Irreversible Thermodynamics Group at the National University of Colombia, including an internship at the Non-linear Physics Group, led by Alberto Pérez Muñuzuri, at the University of Santiago de Compostela. I then moved to Poland to pursue a PhD at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences, at the Physical Chemistry of Complex Systems Group led by Wojciech Gozdz, investigating self-assembly in colloidal systems with competing interactions and the physical principles behind their emergent structures. My PhD included a 6-months secondment at the IQF-CSIC in Madrid, with Eva González Noya as my co-supervisor.

My research interests gradually shifted towards active matter and systems far from equilibrium. During my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (BIOMICAR), completed in December 2025 at Complutense University of Madrid, at Chantal Valeriani’s Lab, I studied the behavior of active colloids and biological microswimmers using computer simulations and theoretical modeling. After the fellowship, I continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physical Chemistry «Blas Cabrera» (IQF-CSIC) in Madrid until March 2026, before joining the InFiBio Group as a postdoctoral researcher from April 2026. Working within InFiBio allowed me to complement my computational background with close collaborations on experiments in microfluidics, microscopy, and living active matter. These collaborations strengthened my interest in bridging theory, simulations, and experiments to better understand the fascinating physics of active systems.

In September 2026, I joined the Department of Physics at the University of the Balearic Islands (UIB) as a Profesor Ayudante Doctor (equivalent to Assistant Professor), where I continue to investigate active matter, self-assembly, and transport phenomena across different length scales. My research combines statistical physics, computational modeling, and numerical simulations to understand how individual interactions give rise to collective behavior in complex systems. I particularly enjoy developing new computational methods, building bridges between simulations and experiments, and collaborating across disciplines to tackle challenging problems in soft and active matter.

Looking ahead, I am excited to establish a new research line focused on harnessing the motility of living active matter for microscale engineering. By combining predictive computational models with experiments, I aim to understand how the intrinsic dynamics of living microswimmers can be exploited to design autonomous microscale technologies, from targeted cargo transport to programmable self-organization and bio-inspired microdevices.