Postdoc
Department of Ibero-American History
Education
11/2025 Defence of the doctoral thesis in Ibero-American History, Bielefeld University
04/2021 to 09/2025 Doctoral Programme in Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology
"Regionalising the Tropics:
German Geographers and the Knowledge Production on Agrarian Colonisation in Latin America in the mid-20th Century"
Supervision: Prof. Dr Olaf Kaltmeier (Bielefeld), and PD. Dr Frederik Schulze (Cologne)
2016 Master of Arts in Urban and Regional Planning, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (14/09/2016)
2009-2014 Student of Sociology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Occupation
Since 12/2025 Management BMBF joint project CALAS
Since 01/2023 Research-Track Postdoc and Academic Coordination Project "Turning Land into Capital. Historical Conjunctures of the (Re-)Production of Wealth in Latin America from the 19th to the 21st Century", Bielefeld University
04/2016-11/2020 Consultant, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Villavicencio, Colombia.
01/2018-12/2019 Assistant Professor of Social Sciences, Escuela Superior de Administración Pública, Villavicencio, Colombia
01/2017-01/2018 Teaching a course on Research Methodology, Lecturer, Universidad del Meta.
08/2014-06/2016 Teaching Assistant Introduction to Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
08/2014-06/2016 Teaching Assistant Introduction to Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
08/2014-08/2015 Internship as academic co-worker, Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica
Scholarships, awards
2020- Ideal Scholarship of the KAAD (Catholic German Academic Exchange Service)
2020-23 Doctoral scholarship from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).
2014-16 University scholarship for a master course.
10/2022-12/2022 Visiting Scholarship LACIS University of Wisconsin-Madison
06/2013-06/2015 Internship, Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica (CNMH)
01/2011- 06/2012 Exchange programme, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and Universidad de Guadalajara
List of publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RDOFCM0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
06/2025 Member of editorial board of serie Turning Land of editorial Kipu- Center for InterAmerican Studies, Bielefeld University
06/2022 – 06/2024 Speaker of the Junior Research Group from German Latin American Studies Association (ADLAF)
Associate Member:
German Latin American Studies Association (ADLAF)
Centre for Inter-American Studies at Bielefeld University (CIAS)
European Society of Environmental History (ESEH)
Working Group History of Geography-German Society for Geography (DGfG)
Alumni:
Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
German Catholic Academic Exchange Service (KAAD).