As an undergraduate, I worked on the Evolutionary Genomics Lab at UACh. I made my thesis with Prof. Juan Opazo on the evolution of the insulin gene family in mammals. I also collaborate in other projects investigating, for example, the molecular adaptations in terms of substitutions or copy-number, in genes such as glogins and keratins, of Cetaceans in their transition to an aquatic environment. After completing a bachelor's in biology, I worked for 2 years as a lab manager and research assistant, investigating the intra- and interspecific gene copy number in the globin gene family. 

Then I moved to Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile to complete a master's and doctoral degree in ecology at Pablo Marquet's lab. Here, I also worked for four years as a professor of practice in biostatistics, together with Andreas Schuler. Together with Pablo and also in collaboration with Beatriz Diez, at the microbial ecology of extreme environments lab, in my dissertation, I worked on developing a theory for the emergence of the universal temperature dependence of biological processes, from molecules to cities. We integrated this theory with principles of scaling from genomes to ecosystems to predict the emergence of functional diversity in microbial ecosystems. During my PhD, I did some internships, including a visit to Prof. Martin Polz at MIT and Prof. Carlos Pedros-Alio at the CBN SCIC in Madrid.

 After completing my PhD, I joined the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) as a Postdoctoral Fellow to work with Christopher Kempes and Geoffrey West on open problems in scaling theory. At SFI, I have worked on two NSF Grants (#1840301, #2133863) in interdisciplinary teams to unify mathematical, theoretical physics, biology, sociology, and economics. In parallel, I started a remote and part-time position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Mathematical Modeling, where I worked with Alejandro Maass on models of genome evolution. In 2024, I also joined the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University as a part-time remote Postdoctoral Researcher. Here I'm working with Minghzhen Lu on scaling in urban systems.