Elkin Navarro Quiroz is an associate professor at the Life Research Center, Simon Bolivar University, Barranquilla, Colombia. He received his BS from the Universidad del Tolima in 2005, his MSc from the Universidad del Norte in 2013, and his PhD in Biomolecules from the Universidad de Cadiz in 2018. He has also been an Innovation Leader at MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA since September 2019.