Between 2006 and 2009 Soledad was researcher and project coordinator in CERAC. Later became assistant researcher of the working group on Political economy of conflict at the area of Historic Memory at the national Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (Comisión Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación, CNRR). There, she also collaborated in the reconstruction of the statistics from victimization of Colombian conflict. Since 2010 Soledad is one of CERAC´s associate researchers. She was coordinator of the program on violence and conflict measurement. She has developed several studies related to issues such as: forced internal displacement, demobilization, disarmament, and reinsertation (DDR), regional conflict analysis and analysis of the victimization of the civil society movements. She has published various articles and chapters in books and has participated in courses on information systems for human rights and the management of panels of micro-data.
Between 2010 and 2012 she did a master in Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University (Sweden). Currently she is a PhD student at GIGA institute of Hamburg with a grant from the University of Hamburg (Germany). Her dissertation is about the missing link between peacebuilding and statebuilding in war and partial post-war contexts. She focuses mainly in the security-development nexus.
