Since 2023 · Professor Auxiliar (Assistant Professor) in Probability and Statistics, Departamento de Matemática, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto
2023 · Leader of the Research Group in Algebraic Statistics, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig
2021–2023 · Researcher, FCT Scientific Employment Stimulus (2020.01933.CEECIND), Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto
2017–2021 · Postdoctoral researcher, Research Training Group MathCore, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (mentor: Thomas Kahle)
2017, 2019 · Postdoctoral researcher, Nonlinear Algebra group, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig (mentor: Bernd Sturmfels)
2016 · Summer intern, Wolfram Research, Champaign (mentor: Daniel Lichtblau)
Education
2017 · PhD in Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Thesis: Syzygies and implicitization of tensor product surfaces. Advisor: Hal Schenck.
2011 · MA in Mathematics, Binghamton University, State University of New York
2009 · BSc in Mathematics, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
University service
Since 2026 · Director of the Licenciatura em Matemática Aplicada, and President of its Scientific Committee and Course Monitoring Committee, Universidade do Porto
Since 2025 · Member of the Restricted Scientific Committee, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade do Porto
Since 2025 · Member of the Course Monitoring Committee, Mestrado em Engenharia Matemática, Universidade do Porto
2019, 2022 · Postdoc and PhD hiring committees, MPI MiS Leipzig
Research community
Refereeing · SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry, Journal of Symbolic Computation, Algebraic Statistics, Advances in Applied Mathematics, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Metrika, Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry, AISTATS, and others