Honors & Awards

Premio a la Excelencia Docente [Teaching Excellence Award], Universidad del Norte, November 13, 2024. This recognition is awarded to the top-rated permanent lecturer and professor in each department, based on student teaching evaluations.
Premio Divulgador de la Ciencia [Science Communicator Award], Universidad del Norte, November 13, 2024. This recognition is given by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research, Creation and Innovation.
Highest Cited Researcher of the Division of Engineering. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. November 13, 2024. This recognition is given by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research, Creation and Innovation
Highest SCOPUS $h_{index}$ of the Division of Engineering. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. November 13, 2024. This recognition is given by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research, Creation and Innovation.
Highest Google Scholar $h_{index}$ of the Division of Engineering. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. November 13, 2024. This recognition is given by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research, Creation and Innovation.
Highly Cited Researcher, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. July 31, 2023. This recognition is given by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research, Creation and Innovation to the 25 highly cited researcher/professors over the last 5 years according to SCOPUS (3/25) and Google Scholar (8/25).
Outstanding Research Award, Department of Industrial Engineering, Division of Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. January 15, 2023. This award recognizes the outstanding publishing record of up to three Professors during the previous academic year.
Highly Cited Researcher, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. March 10, 2022. This recognition is given by the Vice-Chancellor’s Office for Research, Creation and Innovation to the 25 highly cited researcher/professors over the last 5 years according to SCOPUS (3/25) and Google Scholar (7/25).
Medalla Orden al Mérito Científico [Scientific Merit Medal], Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. November 23, 2020. This recognition is given to the professor who has done important work in the field of research and science with national and international recognition, and published his/her scientific activities.
Outstanding Research Award, Division of Engineering, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. January 15, 2019. This award recognizes the outstanding publishing record of up to five Professors/Researchers of the Division of Engineering during the previous academic year.
Visitor Researcher, Genomics and Predictive Medicine Group, John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. April 11, 2016-2019.
Eccles Scholarship in Medical Sciences (1279/2010), The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. This scholarship is awarded to International Students to pursue a full-time program of study for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Australian National University within the John Curtin School of Medical Research.
Fenner Merit Scholarship (1369/2010), The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. The scholarship is named in honour of Professor Frank Fenner, and its purpose is to attract students of high calibre to pursue postgraduate research for a PhD degree at the John Curtin School of Medical Research.
ANU Higher Degree Research (HDR) Merit Scholarship, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. This scholarship covers tuition fees for the standard duration of the PhD program.
Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA), Muenke Lab, Medical Genetics Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. August 2007–August 2012.