Dr. Garcia started his scientific career at his home country Venezuela, where he obtained a Masters degree in Physics, working on the calculation of atomic data required for astrophysics. Dr. Garcia is now a Postdoctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, working as a Science Team Member of NASA’s X-ray mission NuSTAR. He is also a visiting Research Associate at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and now a Senior Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.