Dr. Echeverry has a double Ph.D. degree in Materials Science (University of Antioquia) and Medical Science (University of Groningen). She has international experience in top laboratories in the US (University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign and Purdue University), Spain (Universidad Compultense), and China (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), where she holds the prestigious fellowship from the "Talented Young Scientist Program". Although she just finished her doctoral thesis in 2018, her research activities are focused on the development of new materials for biomedical applications to control and improve the biological response through the chemical and physical modification of the surface through biofunctionalization. They are intended to be used for bone regeneration, cardiovascular applications, and the treatment of infectious diseases. Her academic trajectory has been recognized with three international awards: the Ada Byron Award for Women in Technology awarded annually by the University of Deusto to women technologists to reward and make their excellent careers visible (2021); the award to the best oral presentation given by the W. J. Kolff Institute of the University of Groningen (2017); and first place in the Final Pitch Leaders in Innovation Fellowships Programme of The Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) (2017). She joined the IMDEA Materials Institute in 2019, and she was appointed to senior postdoctoral research associate.