Camilo was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. He received his BS in Biology in 2019 from Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL). He did his undergraduate thesis in the Neuroscience Laboratory at Universidad de Santiago de Chile, where he studied the molecular and cellular mechanisms of impaired cold transduction after chronic constriction injury. After his graduation, he made his master’s thesis in the biophysics and cellular neurophysiology lab at UNAL under Dr. Enrico Nasi and Dr. María Gómez guidance, where he studied the effects of acute lithium exposure on the phosphoinositide signaling cascade in cerebellar primary cultures. He is pursuing a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Dr. Amita Sehgal. He aims to understand sleep regulation at different scales. At the cellular scale, he is studying how organelles relevant to lipid and ROS metabolism regulate sleep. While at the circuit and organismal level, he uses in vivo imaging to understand the interaction between circadian and sleep circuits.