Mariana Medina-Sánchez is a leading Colombian mechatronics engineer. After obtaining her PhD at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) in Barcelona, she joined the Leibniz Institute Dresden (IFW Leibniz) in Germany and focused her career on the development of medical microrobots for assisted reproduction and localized release of therapies for the treatment of gynecological cancer.