Honors & Awards

• Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar National Prize, Colombia (2016)

  First Place in the Category of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences for the work "Understanding of systematic errors for the use of weak gravitational lensing as a cosmological tool" (US$10,000). Considered as the “highest scientific recognition in Colombia.”

• NASA Group Achievement Award - WFIRST Project Team (2023)

  For the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST, now Roman Space Telescope) Project’s Outstanding Performance in developing and optimizing the WFIRST formulation design reference. Awarded to the Cosmology with the High Latitude Survey Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Science Investigation Team.

• University of Pennsylvania

  Zaccheus Daniel Foundation for Astronomical Science Award (US$7100), 2010.

• Universities Research Association Visiting Scholar Grant

  Title: Characterizing Skipper CCDs for Cosmological Applications, PI, US$8,000
  Provided funding to visit Fermilab to collaborate with Fermilab’s Skipper CCD group.

• The LSST Corporation Enabling Science Program 2021

  Title: Virtual Internship in Rubin/LSST Science to Provide Research Experience to Undergraduate Students in Colombian Institutions, PI, US$5000
  Program to give research experience to undergraduate students from Colombian institutions in astronomy, physics, engineering, and related areas to help further their careers and make them more competitive for graduate school in astronomy internationally.

• The LSST Corporation Enabling Science Program 2020

  Title: Supporting Interactions between the LSST DESC, Rubin Observatory & LSST Science Collaborations with a Focus on Early Career Scientists, co-PI, US$12,100
  Supported early career scientists and key contributors to attend two meetings in 2021 and a workshop regarding image simulation and processing, and observing strategies.

• The LSST Corporation Enabling Science Program 2020

  Title: Workshop on Systemic Racism and its Relation to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion during the 2021 Rubin PCW, PI, US$6000
  Hosted an interactive workshop on the topic of systemic racism and its relation to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion during the 2021 Rubin Project and Community Workshop (PCW).

• The LSST Corporation Enabling Science Program 2020

  Title: Image Sensors for Precision Astronomy 2020/2021 Workshop, PI, US$8000
  Supported the participation of eight junior scientists (postdocs and/or students) in a two-day face-to-face meeting in instrumentation to share results and findings.

• NEXTProf Workshop, University of Michigan, Selected Participant (2021)

  Series of events in a nationwide effort to strengthen and diversify the next generation of academic leaders.

• PI LaunchPad Workshop, NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD), the Heising-Simons Foundation, and the University of Arizona, Selected Participant (2021)

  Workshop to develop a researcher’s first flight mission proposal.

• Vera C. Rubin Observatory Builder Status (2020)

• Dark Energy Survey Builder Status (2014)

• LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration Full Member (2014)

• University of Pennsylvania

  Zaccheus Daniel Foundation for Astronomical Science Award (US$7100), 2010.

• Universidad de Los Andes

• Summer Internship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (US$2840), Fermilab (2006)

• Colegio Salesiano de León XIII

  Best ICFES (Colombian Government nationwide examination upon completion of high school) at Colegio Salesiano de León XIII, Bogotá, Colombia, 2000.