Juliana is a PhD researcher at the law department of Ulster University. She is a lawyer specialised in human rights and international humanitarian law from the National University of Colombia (2013). She holds an MA in political studies from the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations (IEPRI) of the National University of Colombia (2020). She explored in her thesis the violent configuration of local institutions in a municipality located on the Colombian-Panamanian border. In addition, she pursued an MA in development studies, major in social justice perspectives -peace and conflict Studies- from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam (2021). There, she approached forced migration governance strategies in the Colombian-Venezuelan case.

Likewise, she has been a socio-legal and humanitarian practitioner focused on forced migration and transitional justice. Juliana worked for the Colombian judiciary and the ombudsman, and international and civil society organisations, in the country. Likewise, she had the opportunity to contribute to the Colombian Truth Commission and the International Criminal Court, where she did a seven-month professional visit to trial chambers on reparations issues.

At Ulster University, she aims to address in her PhD project the relationship between reparative justice, durable solutions for people forced to migrate, and states' responsibility-sharing.