Miguel Angel Gonzalez-Borja is originally from Bogota, Colombia. Miguel completed his bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering at the National University of Colombia in 2009, year in which he also participated in an exchange program with the University of Oklahoma. In 2010 he joined the School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering (CBME) at this institution as a PhD student. Currently he works with the catalytic upgrading of biomass pyrolysis vapors, one of the areas under research in the CMBE Center for Biomass Refining.