I was born and grew up in a city that is 2600 meters closer to the stars, Bogota the capital of Colombia. I did my undergraduate in Physics Education at Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas. I spend a few years working for ICFES, developing Physics tests for large-scale assessment of education in Colombia. I combined my work with my master studies at Universidad de Los Andes where I did my MSc thesis with Prof. Luis Quiroga. During this time, I had the chance to work with Prof. Carlos Tejedor at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) and Prof. Pawel Hawrylack at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences in Ottawa, Canada. I went to  Somerville College, Oxford University in October 2002 with a Clarendon Fund Scholarship and an Overseas Research Student award, and I did my doctorate with Prof. Neil Johnson. During my doctoral studies, I had the opportunity to spend a few months working in Prof. Hideo Mabuchi's group at California Institute of Technology. I finished my D Phil in 2005 and, soon after, I obtained a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford. I moved to UCL in November 2008.

"If you want to build a ship, don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea" Antoine de Saint-Exupéry