Jorge Alfredo Ardila-Rey received the B.Sc. degree in mechatronic engineering from Universidad de Pamplona, Pamplona, Colombia, in 2007, the Specialist Officer degree in naval engineering from Escuela Naval Almirante Padilla, Cartagena, Colombia, in 2008, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Madrid, Spain, in 2012 and 2014, respectively.
He was an Automatic Control Engineer on the frigate "ARC Almirante Padilla" from 2008 to 2010. From 2010 to 2014, he worked with the Department of Electrical Engineering and the High-Voltage Research and Test Laboratory (LINEALT) at UC3M. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), Chile, and the director of the high voltage and bioinspired systems laboratories for electrical applications at the same university
