- University of Maryland
- College Park, Maryland, USA
- Ph.D., Physics
- August 2004
- Dissertation Title: "Ultracold bosonic atoms in optical lattices"
- Advisors: Charles W. Clark and Theodore R. Kirkpatrick
- Universidad de los Andes
- Bogota, Colombia
- B.S., Physics
- March 1999
- Dissertation Title: "Propagation of electromagnetic radiation in Kerr's metric"
- Advisors: Rafael Bautista
Fundacion Alejandro Angel Escobar, Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences Prize, September 2007.
Postdoctoral fellowship, ITAMP 2005-2008.
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (DAMOP thesis prize), American Physical Society, 2005.
Cooperative Fellowship NIST/Chemical Physics (UMD), 2002-2004.
Departmental Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2000-2002.
Magna cum laude B.S. Physics degree, Universidad de los Andes, 1999.
Best GPA award, Universidad de los Andes, 1997 and 1998.
"Beca 40 anos" Fellowship, Universidad de los Andes, 1994-1998.
- Fellow of JILA
- Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics
- January 2012- Present
- Associate Fellow of JILA
- Assistant Professor Adjoint, Department of Physics
- August 2008- 2011t
- Institute of theoretical, Molecular, and optical Physics (ITAMP)
- At the Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Postdoctoral fellow
- September, 2005 – 2008
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
- Postdoctoral researcher
- September 2004 - September 2005
- University of Maryland
- College Park, Maryland, USA.
- Research Assistant
- September 2000 - September 2004