Rafael M. Gutierrez

Rafael M. Gutierrez was born in Asunción, Paraguay, into a diverse family of Latin Americans and Europeans. In Argentina and Colombia, he studied physics, got his MSc in Canada and his PhD in USA in ‘Natural, Social and Human Complexity’. His intercultural development continued in Switzerland and France, returning to Colombia to build interdisciplinary R&D&I groups, centers, and doctoral programs with continuous travels within international collaborations and public service as Deputy Director of the current Colombian Ministry of Science-Technology-Innovation. Currently, Rafael is a professor at Universidad Antonio Nariño in Bogotá, Colombia, and a visiting professor at New York University in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.