I am Queer BIPoC scientist.I come from Northern Chile, with Aymaras heritage (indigenous community) and I love cats, gypsy punk, theater, pokemon world, BIPoC Feminismus, and anime! In Chile, I did my undergrad in Biotechnology at the Universidad de Antofagasta, where I felt in love with the microbial world! Afterwards, I got a DAAD scholarship to study my PhD in Germany. I joined the Marine Microbiology graduate program, together with Jacobs University Bremen, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Yes, a lot of collaborations!). Most of the time I was living on a tiny little island called Heligoland, working at the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland.
My thesis was focused in phage ecology, which I studied the relationship between marine bacteria and their viruses or phages. In between of my lab work, I was drawing about microbes and my life as a PhD student. Now this project grows as Microbiale.