Jhonattan Cordoba is a young Colombian scientist, born in Quibdó-Chocó, and currently holds an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG - Brazil). Member of the Management Committee at the Nanomaterials Characterization and Processing Laboratory (Clean Room – LCPNano-UFMG), and Brazilian Photonics Society (SBFoton). Prior to current appointment, he served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, Spain. His research is based on applied and computational electromagnetism with a focus on optics and photonics, applied to bio-sensing, sensing, nonlinear optics, plasmonic, optoelectronics, sub-nanometric microscopy, and all-optical digital circuits and systems. He received his B.Sc. in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from Universidad Católica de Pereira (UCP-2009), M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering from Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB Medellin-2012) both in Colombia, and P.hD. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP-2017) in Brazil.

Jhonattan is a 2022 Optica Ambassador.