The UIS electrical engineer, Juan Diego Caballero Peña, received the Digital Green Talents award from the German Ministry of Education and Research.
This award seeks to promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas in the field of digitalization and sustainability.
“I am honored to have been selected for this award, it is an honor to be in the select group of 20 researchers in the world, it is a recognition of my research work that I started in undergraduate, continued in the master’s degree and now with the doctorate and also to all the people who have been behind me, supporting me,” said Caballero Peña.
The young man is in Canada in the second stage of his double degree doctorate between the UIS and the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivières (UQTR), thus continuing his professional training at the Industrial University of Santander, which began in 2014 when he entered to study Electrical Engineering and in 2019 when he started his master’s degree.
“For me the UIS is an essential part of my life because it has contributed in personal and professional growth. I have been there since 2014 when I started my undergraduate, I am grateful to the University and to the professors of the School of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering who have contributed in my path,” expressed the engineer.
And the UIS is so important to him that he still remembers Juan Manuel Murcia, his high school professor who motivated him to pursue electricity as a life project. With this impulse he decided at the end of 2013 to apply to the UIS and thanks to his good results he was admitted for the first semester of 2014 and a decade later he is on his way to become a doctor and thus fulfill another of his dreams.
“My dream is to be a doctor, I want to finish my doctorate and then join a university and become a research professor. I tell the new generations that processes take time, we want to have quick results and that does not happen because you have to struggle with effort and this takes time, it is a process to have satisfactory results,” he said.
For the time being, Caballero Peña will continue his doctorate in Canada, an opportunity he took advantage of thanks to the agreements that the UIS has. There he has had the vision and support of national and international supervisors, thus gaining a more global view of his field.
This is the third time that a member of the School of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering receives this international award after the 2012 and 2022 awards.
