As a researcher in the Centre for Bio-information and Photonics (CIBioFi), Andres Melo coordinates the creation of new facilities for spectroscopy, quantum information, remote sensing, and biophotonics.  In his Ph.D. he applied optical spectroscopy to investigate novel materials for solar cells and quantum information processing. He characterized novel perovskite systems as single-photon emitters to integrate information protocols. Furthermore, he identified the decoherence mechanisms to enhance quantum information transmission employing optical fibers. He obtained a bi-national Ph.D. degree in 2019, in a close collaboration between the Universidad del Valle in Colombia and the University of Bayreuth (Lehrstuhl für Spektroskopie weicher Materie). He has also experience in stochastic processes and quantum information, as well as laser spectroscopy in the single-molecule regime. More recently, he has been exploring the field of machine learning and is eager to apply his experience in the context of biophysics and complexity.