Dr. Andres Jaramillo-Botero earned an Electrical Engineering Bachelor of Science from Boston University (1986), a Master’s of Science in Computer Science as a Fulbright Scholar from the State University of New York (1990), and PhD in Engineering (nano-scale dynamics) from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (1998). He completed his doctoral work as a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) between 1996-1997, and followed up with postdoctoral work in Nanoscale Science as an NSF fellow (US National Science Foundation), at Caltech and at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), between 2002 and 2005. Dr. Jaramillo-Botero joined Caltech full time in 2006. He is currently the Director of Multiscale Science and Simulation at the Institute’s Materials and Process Simulation Center, within the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering division. At Caltech, he has led/co-led multiple U.S. government and industry-funded research programs (DOE, DOD, DOT, NSF, NASA, Samsung-S Korea, Total-France, DOW-Chemical, Intel Corp, among others), as well as authored numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications and patents. Since 1990, Dr. Jaramillo-Botero has been a member of the academic community of the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) in Cali, where he achieved full professorship in 1999, and was admitted into the Javeriana honor society in 2001. At PUJ he has occupied multiple posts, including Dean of Engineering (1998-2004), University council board member (1998-2004), Chair of the Computer Science program, founding Chair of the Electronics Engineering undergraduate and founding Director of the Doctoral program in Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is the Scientific Director of the international, multi institutional research alliance OMICAS, a Colombian-government program in Food science funded through the World Bank, anchored at PUJ Cali, for the optimization and development of agricultural plant varieties with improved traits, using omics characterization.