Héctor holds an MSc in Production Engineering at Federal São Carlos University, Brazil. His award-winning master’s thesis on humanitarian logistics resulted in the publication "Building disaster preparedness and response capacity in humanitarian supply chains using the Social Vulnerability Index," which was honored as the "Best EJOR Paper 2023." He also earned bachelor’s degrees in applied mathematics (2015) and Industrial Engineering (2014) at Pontifical University Javeriana, Colombia. With over five years of experience as an assistant professor in Operational Research and Operations Management. Héctor specializes in mathematical optimization, Python, and optimization software such as GAMS and AMPL, along with solvers like GUROBI and CPLEX. His research interests encompass Vehicle Routing, Waste Collection, Robust Optimization, Stochastic Programming, and Simulation Methods.