I'm a PhD (Dr. Eng) - Systems and Computer Sciences (Summa Cum Laude) from the National University of Colombia. Currently, I'm working as a BRAIN HACKER in the COMA Science Group discovering the hidden patterns of Consciousness (Coma, Vegetative State/Unresponsiveness Wakefulness Syndrome (UWS) and Minimal Consciousness State).

Research

During my undergraduate studies, I worked as young researcher in OHWAHA, a research group in Computer graphics and Image Processing, in head of Dr. Manuel Guillermo Forero, we developed several algorithms for reconstruction of scattered data cloud points. In 2010, I finished my PhD in the National University of Colombia at the Bioingenium research lab, under direction of Prof. Eduardo Romero. My work was about efficient strategies for navigation of Large Medical Images (Virtual Microscopy). 

Currently, I'm a postdoc researcher in the COMA Science Group Liege-Belgium from 2011. I'm developing image analysis tools for supporting the diagnosis of Disorder of Conciousness (DOC) patients and more recently for Tinitus.

My current research interests include:

• Tissue characterization using Diffusion Weighted Imaging.
  
• Dynamic Causal Modeling for brain effective connectivity. 
• Resting Analysis Connectivity Methods.
• Physical and Mechanical Brain Modelling.
  
• Theoretical neurobiology.
• Hard head motion artifacts in MRI.