Andrés received his B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in 2010 and his M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad de Antioquia in 2014. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UNICAMP. His research interests include nonlinear optical effects in optical fibers and integrated photonics, mainly nonlinear characterization methods, optical parametric amplification and wavelength conversion.