About me

I aim to understand and engineer the code of life

to solve human and planetary health challenges.

I love math and biology / biochemistry.

Education and research training

2019-present*

Postdoc Synthetic Biology**
Harvard Medical School

Wyss Institute

Affiliate at MIT

In my Post-Doc, I transitioned to the experimental sciences to:

be able to obtain data that guides, validates my math models
deepen my understanding of genome designs
develop cellular technologies with new chemistries

and I got fascinated discovering how "life finds a way"...

*Maternity leave: April-July 2022

**2019-2020, Swiss National Science Foundation fellow; 2023-present, Specialist Postdoctoral Researcher

2014-2018

Ph.D. Chemical Engineering
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

I did a computational Ph.D. to:

analyze large-scale biochemical networks
understand high order interactions between genome sequence, available macro/molecules (omics data), and cellular phenotypes

and I loved ideating algorithms that demultiplex complex interactions

2008-2013

Dipl. Chemical Engineering
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

I studied Chemical Engineering to:

design (bio)chemical systems
simulate their behavior despite large uncertainties

Exchange year at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

2024 Rising Star in Biological Engineering, Princeton (awardees)

2024 Genetics Society of America DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development (awardees)
2023 Mentorship Excellence Award, Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) AIChE
2023 Travel Award to the AIChE Annual Meeting, AIChE Foundation
2022 Finalist for the Career Award at the Scientific Interface from the Burroughs Wellcome Fund
2021 Rising Star in ChemE Program, MIT
2021 Featured as a “Face of Cell” by Cell Press
2019 Annual Jeffrey Hubbell and Melody Swartz Young Bioengineer Award, EPFL
2019-2020 Swiss National Science Foundation Fellow at Harvard University (data portal)
2018 Finalist in EPFL competition “My thesis in 180 seconds” (talk)
2016 Best Student Poster Award at the SystemsX.ch Day, SNSF, 3rd place
2016 Excellence Teaching Award by the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering section, EPFL
2016 Systems Biology Winter School Travel Award
2013 Best GPA Award in Chemical Engineering at the Complutense University of Madrid, 3rd place
2012 ERASMUS and ERASMUSINTERN Grant, European Commission
20(09|10|12) Excellence Grant of Madrid, Community of Madrid
2008 Best GPA Award of the State and the University Entrance Exam, 1st place
2008 Finalist in Chemistry Olympics, 3rd place
2002-2005 Program of Detection and Stimulation of Precocious Talent in Mathematics (ESTALMAT), Real Academy of Exact, Physical, and Natural Sciences, Spain

Honors and Awards

My family is from Argentina, and my parents emigrated to Spain. I grew up in a rural area of the Canary Islands with my parents and younger sister.

My father is a dentist and my mother a pharmacist. This background defined my desire to understand molecular processes underlying life, sickness, and drug treatments to cure diseases.

I speak three and a half languages (Spanish, English, German, and some French).

I identify as a Hispanic/Latina.

Picture with my parents and younger sister in Gran Canaria (Spain), where we lived. The little girl with big dreams at the bottom right is me.

I am now a permanent resident in the U.S.A., where I live with my supportive, German husband and our wonderful 2-year-old son.

Beside science, research, mentoring, and teaching,

I like yoga, enjoying nature, and learning about new cultures.

I want to become a Professor and work with kind and talented scientists.

Picture with my son.

A bit of my story

“If you are going to change the World,

you have to try really different things."

Frances Arnold
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2018

About Me