Cancer epidemiologist with PhD degree in epidemiology and public health from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Experience in analysis of cancer data, collected by cancer registries and clinical trial organisations as well as teaching. Working in the field of surveillance, cancer registries as well as palliative and end of life care. Descriptive and analytic epidemiological analysis experience in the field of case-control and cohort studies and cancer registry data, including survival analyses. Authored more than 200 publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals. Supervised PhD students of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. 2013-2014 IARC transfer of expertise fellowship, thereafter research director at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología of Colombia. Currently Full Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Director of the PhD Programme in Clinical Epidemiology of this university. Academy representative in the Advisory Board of the Latin American Hub of the Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development.