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Thalía is a Bioengineering Junior at UTEC and is originally from a town in Piura, Perú. Since she was 13, she has accessed scholarships and programs to study outside her hometown and has managed to be an outstanding student in her school and university. All the opportunities she was granted so far have led her to share her knowledge with those less fortunate. For that reason, she works to empower women and girls from her birthplace, democratize life sciences, and improve education in her country.
Moreover, she is a volunteer for social programs that follow the same objective as her, such as Q’omer Kallpa, Asiry, Girl Up and recently she has founded Colaneñas. At her university, Thalía is part of two research projects related to two topics she loves: Synthetic biology and Tissue engineering. These projects seek to improve the health of people with burn injuries and those who suffer from osteodegenerative diseases, respectively. On the other hand, she is the vicepresident of BioUTEC, a biohacker space whose purpose is to democratize biotechnology inside and outside UTEC. She has also provided academic support to undergraduate UTEC students at academic risk in Chemistry through the PARA Program, a program designed by the Welfare Department at her university.
Thalía considers herself as a caring, creative, and responsible person. In her spare time, she enjoys painting with watercolors, riding her bike, creating new strategies to reach more people interested in Biotechnology through BioUTEC and, recently, she has found in Yoga a new way to manage her stress during these difficult times.