Bachelor of Science in Education, with emphasis in Mathematics, Physics and Statistics, Universidad del Atlántico (Colombia). Master in Mathematics, Universidad del Valle-Universidad del Norte (Colombia). D. in Statistics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz (Germany). Since 1998 he has been a full-time professor at the Universidad del Norte in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Skills and expertise: Advanced statistical modeling, advanced statistical analysis, R programming, applied statistics, data analysis.