Andres Plazas obtained his degree in physics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Colombia. He subsequently moved to the University of Pennsylvania to obtain a doctoral degree in physics and astronomy. At Penn, he received the Zaccheus Daniel Foundation for Astronomical Science award. He also became part of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) project, working on weak gravitational lensing and testing the detectors of the Dark Energy Camera used by DES at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab. He continued his work on weak lensing as a research associate at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he became part of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration of the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) that will be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. For his work in characterizing systematic errors in weak gravitational lensing, he received in 2016 the Fundacion Alejandro Angel Escobar national prize in Natural and Exact Sciences, one of the highest scientific recognition in his native Colombia. He worked as a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, working on understating systematic errors in weak lensing from the infrared detectors that will be used by the wide-field imager of NASA's Nancy Roman Space Telescope. Dr. Plazas also has worked as a Research Scientist at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, working in community science. He currently works at Princeton University as an Associate Research Scholar and is part of the Data Management Team of the Rubin Observatory. He is also a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Physics of Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Plazas frequently participates in science Education and Public Outreach events in Spanish and English as a NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador volunteer.