Manuel G. Forero has a BSc in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia; an MSc in Electrical Engineering in the area of Biomedicine and Control from Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá; and a Master's degree in Medical Imaging and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France. He was a visiting professor at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and a postdoctoral fellow in Microscopy Image Processing at the Instituto Daza de Valdes of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. From 1997 to 2002, he was a professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and founding director of the Ohwaha Research Group, and, from 1998 to 1999, he was a professor at the Universidad Escuela Colombiana de Ingenierı́a Julio Garavito. He was a researcher at the Universities of Birmingham, UK, between 2004 and 2010, and Cardiff, UK, between 2010 and 2014. Since 2014, he has held the position of dean.