I was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia and lived there until I moved to the US to do a PhD in Mathematics at Indiana University under the supervision of Prof. Paul Kirk. After grad school I had multiple postdoctoral positions, and now I am an assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame. 

The kind of mathematical objects that I like thinking are knots and the surfaces they bound, and also 3-manifolds and the 4-manifolds they bound. In short, I think about shapes and the different ways of distinguishing them. Outside of research, I think about ways of making mathematics accessible to all, and ways of making the mathematical community more welcoming.