Profile
Biography
MA and PhD (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), MBA (Leuphana University of Lüneburg,Germany)
Associate Lecturer
She joined in 2022 the York Law School and the Centre for Applied Human Rights working on the Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict. Prior to joining York, she lectured at Nueva Granada Military University Law School (2019-2022), Universidad de Los Andes (2019-2020), Universidad del Atlántico (2010-2013), among other Colombian Universities. She was a Fulbright Scholar at Cornell Law School (2016-2017), a research fellow at the International Nuremberg Principles Academy (2016), and at the German Institute for Environmental Strategies – Ökopol (2008-2009).
She has performed as Director of Research Center, Director of Academic Programme and Deputy Dean at the Law School at the Nueva Granada Military University Law School. She also worked as a public official at the Colombian Ministry of Labour (2013), and at the Superior Court of Bogota Justice and Peace Chamber (2022).
Research
Overview
Her research interests fall within the broad areas of Human Rights, transitional justice, gender, peacebuilding, international criminal law, International Humanitarian Law, constitutional law and sustainability. She has large experience in qualitative research and fieldwork with sensitive groups such as former combatants and victims of gross human rights violations in Colombia.
Main research projects
- Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict (University of York, January 2022- Currently)
- The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Colombia: Design of a Social Observatory (Nueva Granada Military University, 2019-2020)
- Potentialities and challenges of the Colombian reintegration process as a guarantee of non-repetition (Universidad de los Andes, 2014-2017)
- Domestic investigation and prosecution of international crimes (International Nuremberg Principles Academy, June- December 2016)
- “Green cities toolbox” and “Green Airports” (Siemens IT Solutions and Services Management Consulting, 2009)
- Optimization of the monitoring and control of trans-boundary flows of electronic waste. (Ökopol Institute of Ecology and Environmental Policy, 2008- 2009)
