Fall 2024: Assistant professor, Dept. of Biology. San Francisco State University.

2019-2023: Postdoctoral scholar, Penn State University. 

2017: Fellow researcher, FAO-UN-International Atomic Energy Agency, Laboratory of pest control, Development of a new strain of Ceratitis capitata for the Sterile insect technique

2012-2018: Graduate research assistant, Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D.

2012-2016: Fellow, Colciencias-Fulbright doctoral Scholarship

2010: Researcher, Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria

2008-2009: Researcher,  Corporación Colombiana de Investigación. Universidad Nacional de Colombia BSc. 2010 honors thesis.

2007: Fellow, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria

2004: Fellow, Institute of Biodiversity Research, Alexander Von Humboldt, Villa de Leyva, Colombia.