Uribe's research deals with algebraic geometry and topology with string theory applications.
Uribe graduated from secondary school in Bogotá and then studied from 1994 to 1998 at the Universidad de Los Andes.
In 2002 he received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with thesis Twisted K-Theory and Orbifold Cohomology of the Symmetric Product under the supervision of Alejandro Ádem and Yongbin Ruan.
[2] Uribe received the Mathematics Prize of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2012.
In 2018 he was an invited speaker with talk The evenness conjecture in equivariant unitary bordism at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.