San Carlos de Bariloche, with a population of more than 135.000 people, is the largest city in the Argentine province of Río Negro, and is part of the National Park Nahuel Huapi.

I finished high school at San Esteban College under a program of comprehensive training in accounting, economics, administration, and computer science, that gave me a Vocational High School Diploma in Business and Computing.

After high school, I decided I did not liked accounting and maths, so I did a turn of 180 degrees to life science. I enrolled in a Master in General Biology at the University of Buenos Aires, after which I did a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires, at Leloir Institute Foundation. The topic of my PhD thesis was the molecular and genetic bases of plant flowering and reproduction in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Cerdán.

Upon completing my PhD, I did a short three-months stay at the University of Umeå where I learned Chromatin Immuno Precipitation followed by sequencing (Chip-seq) technique. After, I moved to Geneva, Switzerland where I did a 5 year postdoc at the University of Lausanne in the lab of Dr. Yves Poirier. I led several projects related to phosphate metabolism, plant breeding, plant defense, and seed germination in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and in tomato.

Now, I live in Barcelona, where I work at the Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG). I am part of the Momentum CSIC Programme: Develop Your Digital Talent, and the goal of my project is to set up a Gene Editing Facility to develop genetically modified crops using CRISPR-Cas technology, as a service for researchers and agricultural companies. During my four-year contract, my work will focus on the implementation of efficient transformation protocols for Arabidopsis, tomato, rice, melon, and potato; establishment of CRISPR-Cas gene editing tools; and implementation of digital tools to improve the gene editing process.