Personal statement

I am a lecturer in the Department of Management Science at Strathclyde Business School. I gained a BS in Economics and an ME in Systems Engineering from the National University of Colombia and a PhD in Management from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, as a Scientia scholar. My research focuses on how policymakers' mental models and urban planning decision-making impact societal well-being in cities. 

I have researched cross-disciplinary topics combining social, economic, and environmental sciences and operations research tools such as systems dynamics and agent-based modelling. I have applied in-depth analysis and systems modelling and simulations in projects examining Colombia's complex socio-economic challenges related to the digital divide, the electricity market, and energy security.

I have worked as a researcher at the National University of Colombia and in an interdisciplinary research team at the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) of Colombia to understand the digital divide across the different regions of Colombia. I have also taught as a lecturer at the University of La Sabana and the Metropolitan Institute of Technology in Colombia, as a tutor at UNSW Sydney, and as a Guest Lecturer at UNSW Canberra and the National University of Colombia.