Diego Manco was born in Giraldo, Antioquia, a small town in the western range of the Colombian Andes. He received a BS in Mathematics from the Universidad de Antioquia in Medellín, an MS in Mathematics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Oregon in Eugene, OR, USA. For his PhD studies, he received a Fulbright scholarship from the Colombian Ministry of Science (then COLCIENCIAS). His PhD advisor was Angélica Osorno, a Colombian mathematician who has also been featured in Lathisms. He then was a Postdoctoral Associate at Western University in London, ON, Canada. He is now on the job market.

During his years in Colombia, Diego was interested in mathematical logic, and he wrote an MS thesis exploring connections between point-free topology, lattice valued first order structures, and sheaves of first order structures on locales. Diego is currently an algebraic topologist working at the intersection of Homotopy Theory and Category Theory. He has made contributions to algebraic K-theory by developing multicategories as a foundation for multiplicative K-theory, and by studying the connections between K-theory and other algebraic notions, such as Witt vectors.

He has taught undergraduate courses in Colombia, the United States, and Canada, has run graduate reading seminars, and mentored undergraduate reading projects. He has also helped with initiatives that connect the universities where he has worked with the surrounding communities, such as the Eugene Youth Math Fest and the Western Mathematics Exposition Competition.

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