Margarita Varón received her B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2000. Then she obtained her M.Sc. degree in Optical Communications and Photonic technologies from Politecnico di Torino, in Italy, in 2003. In 2008 she received her Ph.D. degree in Optoelectronics from ISAE-SUPAERO in Toulouse, France. Since 2010, she has been working as a professor with Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, her research interests are mainly in optical fiber sensors, optoelectronic oscillators and microwave photonics.