I´m a Research Associate and Head of conflict and conflict management specialization at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, University of Erfurt. Before coming to the Willy Brandt School, I was a Research Assistant Fellow on a participatory action research project with refugee-background young people in southern New Zealand at the School of Education of the University of Otago.  I'm a member of the FBA Research Working Groups 2023-2027, research affiliate in The Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) at the University of Amsterdam and former fellow at Civil War Paths. 

I have a Bachelor and Master in Political Science from the University of Los Andes, Bogotá Colombia, and a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.