Professional Experience

October 2024 - present: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia (UNAL)

Apr 2023-Sep 2024: Postdoctoral fellow/Researcher, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy (SNS)

Feb 2016-Nov 2018: Lecturer & Researcher, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia (ITM)

Aug 2017-Nov 2018: Lecturer & Researcher, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia (UdeA)

Education

Nov 2018-Apr 2023: PhD in Methods and Models for Molecular Sciences, Graduated cum laude, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy, Advisor: Prof. Dr. Chiara Cappelli,  EmbedLab Group:  http://embedlab.sns.it

Thesis title: Modeling drugs in complex environments: Solution, Cell membranes, and DNA

Aug 2013-Mar 2016: Master in Chemical Sciences, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Advisors: Dr. Cacier Hadad and Dr. Albeiro Restrepo. Theoretical Chemical Physics Group: QF-T 

Thesis title: Specific Solvation of Singlet Carbenes 

Feb 2007-Apr 2013: Bachelor of Chemistry, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. Advisors: Dr. Albeiro Restrepo and Dr. Doris Guerra. Theoretical Chemical Physics Group: QF-T

Thesis title: Reaction Mechanisms for the Reactions between Substituted Carbenes and Water

Research

My research focuses on understanding how molecular structure, non-covalent interactions, and solvation determine chemical reactivity, spectroscopic response, and molecular recognition in complex environments. Using multiscale molecular simulations, quantum chemistry, and computational spectroscopy, I study systems ranging from aqueous solutions and confined molecular assemblies to biomolecular complexes relevant to virology, drug resistance, and environmental remediation.

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