I am researcher and bioinformatician in human genomics and neurogenetics. My research interests include elucidating ape- and human-specific genetic changes that led to our complex brain structure, behaviors, and neurodiversity.
Currently, I am postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Dr. Jonathan Flint, UCLA, where I am studying the impact of genes in behavior using single-cell multi-omics data in mouse and humans. Previously, I was a graduate student researcher and postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Dr. Megan Dennis at UC Davis, where I studied the role of structural variation in brain evolution and neurodevelopmental disorders using both short- and long-read sequencing technologies. I also worked as a bioinformatics research assistant at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in the Plants Systems Biology Lab.
I was born in Santiago, Chile.