Carlos Pineda is an Associate Professor at the Instituto de Física, UNAM. He obtained his physics degree with honors from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and later completed his MSc and PhD at UNAM, receiving the Alfonso Caso Medal for his doctoral work. After a postdoctoral stay with Jens Eisert at the University of Potsdam, he joined the Instituto de Física, where he founded the Quantum Information and Optics Group in 2011.

His research focuses on quantum information, with interests that extend to quantum optics, many-body systems, decoherence and Loschmidt echoes, spin chains, and complex classical dynamics. He has published over 50 papers in high-impact journals, including Phys. Rev. Lett., Nature Communications and Scientific Reports, with more than 1000 citations. He has delivered numerous invited talks worldwide, including at Harvard University, and actively contributes to the organization of international scientific meetings.