Alexander Rodríguez obtained his undergraduate degree in Medicine from Universidad Metropolitana in 2011 (Colombia) and a master's degree in Basic Biomedical Sciences from Universidad el Norte in 2017 (Colombia), where he received the Recognition of Scientific Merit and thesis laureate magna-cum-laude. He is currently a Ph.D candidate of the Medicine Department at Universidad del Norte, where also works as a cathedratic professor in the same department. He has six years of clinical experience in critical care and trauma and two years in bone marrow transplantation, as well as six years in research on biosensors development of brain injury related biomarkers with high skills in electrochemical detection methods, biofunctionalization techniques and physics-chemical nanomaterial characterization. The focus of his research is to develop an early neuronal injury detection method that can be added as a predictive tool to clinical and imaging variables in traumatic and ischemic brain injury.