Professor Yepes-Maya has a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Católica de Oriente. Colombia (1998), equivalent to Production Engineering from the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Niterói, (2016); a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from the National Mining Faculty of the National University of Colombia (2012), equivalent to a Master's in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro (2016); and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering in the area of thermal machines, fluids, and flow machines from the Federal University of Itajubá (2016). In 2020. he worked as a visiting professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon in Portugal. He is currently a C1 Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Itajubá, a researcher at the Nucleus of Excellence in Thermoelectric and Distributed Generation (NEST), and a collaborator of the Integrated Technologies and Sustainable Engineering group (TIES). He has experience in the areas of thermochemical conversion of biomass, thermochemical process simulation, and the processes and design of small-scale and laboratory-scale reactors.