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Education

PhD. in Satellite Remote Sensing for agricultural fields monitoring, University of Stirling, May 2021.
MSc. in Power engineering and sustainable energy, Swansea University, 2017
PGCert. in Project managment, Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito, Bogota, Colombia, 2015
BSc. in Electrical Engineering, Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose De Caldas, Bogota, Colombia, 2012

Publications

Please see my ORCID profile for an updated list of publications here

Publications list

Work experience

Spring 2020: Teaching Assistant
- University of Stirling
- Duties included: Statistics teaching assistant.
Spring 2019: Teaching Assistant
- University of Stirling
- Duties included: Statistics teaching assistant.
2015-2016: Solutions electrical engineer
- Schneider Electric, Bogota, Colombia
- Duties included:
  - Worked as a link between project stakeholders facilitating synergies and optimal communication flow among project management, design teams, local and international Schneider Electric manufacturing plants to obtain integral solutions to bespoke costumer needs.
2012-2015: LV Design electrical engineer
- Schneider Electric, Bogota, Colombia
- Duties included:
  - Developed bespoke designs of intelligent motor control centres, speed drives, power factor compensators, automatic load transfer systems, and auxiliary services systems for substations, among others, for projects in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
  - Responsible for technical support to factory and the quality control department to manufacture, assembly and test of switchgear and electrical boards.
2011-2012: HV Design electrical engineer
- Ingeniería & Diseño S.A, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Duties included:
  - Developed high voltage electrical engineering designs such as Insulation coordination, disposition of equipment in switchyards, selection of conductors, insulation coordination, shielding and grounding designs of substations (up to 500kV).
2011-2012: Electrical engineering assistant
- Solinet LTDA., Bogotá, Colombia
- Duties included:
  - Assistance to engineers developing technical plans and final reports of electrical systems and structured cabling.
  - Responsible for finding appropriate technical and economical suppliers according to budget restrictions

Awards

2017: RSPSoc’s wavelength conference - Best presentation award
2016: Best MSc Electrical and Electronic Engineering Student - Swansea University

Fellowships and Grants

Santander bank doctoral travel award (2019) – University of Stirling
Santander bank doctoral travel award (2018) – The Open university
UK space agency – Environment systems LTD (Fully funded PhD)
Swansea university International Office Scholarship and Santander bank Mobility Fund (MSc. scholarship)

Oral and poster presentations

IGARSS 2018: Crop monitoring using an Optimisation of the Difference of Covariance Matrices for PolSAR

July 26, 2018

Conference proceedings talk at IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Valencia, Spain.

IGARSS 2020: Using C-Band SAR and temperature to monitor tropical agricultural fields

October 01, 2020

Talk at IEEE IGARSS 2020, Virtual symposium

IGARSS 2020: Agricultural fields monitoring with Multi-temporal Polarimetric (MT-POLSAR) change detection

October 02, 2020