Omar Ormachea has a PhD in Laser Physics and Spectroscopy (2004) from Belarus State University (BSU), Belarus. He completed a postdoctoral stay at the same university from 2004 to 2006, and finished his BSc. & MSc. studies in Physics and Mathematics at BSU in 1996. He is currently a Full Professor and director of the Center for Optical and Energy Research at the Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB). He served as head of the Electronics and Telecommunications program (UPB) from 2009 to 2022, successfully concluding its leadership with the program's accreditation to Arcu-Sur of MERCOSUR in 2019. Since 2009, he has been a member of the international team and facilitator of the ALOP (Active Learning in Optics and Photonics) team of UNESCO; from 2001 to 2006, he was an Associate Researcher at BSU in the Nonlinear Optics Laboratory. Winner of multiple national awards and recognitions (13 in total); 4 first places, 2 second places, and 2 honorable mentions in the Plurinational Science and Technology Award, as well as the "Alejo Calatayud" distinction, the 2010 bicentennial medal of Cochabamba, and the scientific merit award granted by the Honorable Municipal Council of Cochabamba, among other awards and recognitions. He designed and built Bolivia's first high-power laser in 2007, has more than 70 articles published in scientific journals, more than 60 conference presentations (national and international) as a speaker, and as a result of applied research activities, he is co-author of UPB's first patent and Bolivia's first technological patent in 2023.