Personal CV


EDUCATION

 University of Delaware, Newark, United States, at present

PhD candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

  • PhD Thesis: On numerical modeling of flocculation and cohesive sediment transport 

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 2015

M.S., Water Resources

  • Master Thesis: A spectral multidomain penalty method solver for the simulation of the velocity attenuation in hyporheic flows

Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Colombia, 2010

PGDip., Environmental Engineering

  • Specialist Thesis: Environmental impact study and formulation of environmental management plan for the agribusiness Semillas del Huila SA.

Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Colombia, 2009

B.Eng., Agricultural engineering

  • Undergraduate thesis: Environmental impact study and formulation of environmental management plan for the poultry farm in Rivera-Huila

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (Selected)

University of Delaware, Newark, Unidad States

Research Assistantship (September 2018 – Currently) 

Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia

Assistant Professor (January 2017 – July 2018)

  • Fluid Mechanics (Undergraduate)
  • Hydraulics (Undergraduate)
  • Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulics Labs (Undergraduate)
  • Environmental Modeling (undergraduate)

 Universidad de La Salle, Bogotá, Colombia

Researcher (January 2017 – 2018)

  • Development of technological tool as support in the planning of the water resource in the Colombian agriculture 

Revista Lasallista de Investigación, Bogotá, Colombia

  • Reviewer (September 2017 – July 2018)
  • Research project: Propuesta para el potencial aprovechamiento de los sedimentos de sistemas de saneamiento pluvial: Caso de estudio en la localidad de Puente Aranda de la ciudad de Bogotá.

COMPUTATION SKILLS

  • Programming: Fortran, Matlab, Python, R
  • Post Processing Software: Matlab, R, Python, Excel
  • Simulation Software : Ansys, OpenFOAM
  • Software CAD: AutoCAD, ArcGIS, QGIS