Liliana Giraldo Gutierrez studied chemistry and obtained her PhD in Chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She has been linked to this university since 1990, obtaining a Magna Cum Laude grade both in her undergraduate thesis as well as in her PhD thesis. She is director of the Calorimetry Laboratory of the Department of Chemistry. Her area of interest is calorimetry, which she uses in the characterization of special materials. She designs and builds her own calorimeters. She has more than 300 publications on thermodynamics to her name.