John was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1983. He obtained his B.s Sci. from the Andes University (2007), M. Sci. from the ENS-Lyon (2008), and Ph.D. from the University of Paris 6 - UPMC (2011). He joined Kyoto University as a research fellow in 2011, and since 2014 he is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering. He is focused on studying the dynamics of soft-matter systems using computer simulations.