I am a PhD Student at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization of the University of Waterloo. My supervisor is Olya Mandelshtam. 

I did my Master's in Mathematics at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, under the supervision of Carolina Benedetti Velásquez and Kolja Knauer. In the same university, I studied my Bachelor's in both Mathematics and Physics.

My current mathematical interests include algebraic combinatorics related to symmetric functions, matroid polytopes and Ehrhart theory. 

You can contact me at: j2valenc [at] uwaterloo [dot] ca