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;Majoring inGraduated from:Bioengineering;Country:Perú, but currently living in France

Thalía, a Bioengineering Junior at Graduate from UTEC(2023), was born and raised in a town in Piura, Peru. At the age of 13, she was selected as one of the top students is currently pursuing her MSc studies in her region to study 3 years Biomedical Engineering at COAR Piura, a highly selective boarding school École Polytechnique - Institut Polytechnique de Paris in her countryFrance. During her the last year at schoolfour years, she was awarded a scholarship has used biologically-inspired engineering to study at UTEC, in Lima. 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, and recently she has founded Colaneñas.On the other handcreate synthetic organ models across Peru, she was the vicepresident of BioUTECFrance, a biohacker space whose purpose is to democratize biotechnology inside and outside UTECCanada.

Thalía considers herself as a caring, creative, All the opportunities she was granted so far to become an engineer working and responsible personstudying in prestigious institutions have led her to share her knowledge to shape the career of future female scientists. Besides engineeringFor that reason, she enjoys painting with watercolorsworks to empower women and girls from her birthplace, riding her bikedemocratize life sciences, and eating soups. Likewise, she has an immense passion for promoting bioeconomy as a development model contribute to biomedical research in her country and Latin America, as well as creating new strategies to reach more people interested in Biotechnology through BioUTEC. These are some of the reasons why she has been recently chosen as one of the 100 most outstanding young leaders in Biotechnology in Latin America to attend the Allbiotech 2021 summit in Argentina.

In the long termMoreover, she would like to improve has been a volunteer for social programs that follow the same objective as her Yoga skills to manage and runs her stress during difficult times like the ones we are currently experiencingown non-profit organization. Thalía considers herself a caring, creative, and responsible person. Besides engineering, she enjoys painting with watercolors, sleeping, and eating soups. She also loves doing yoga and knitting!

*Top 100 Young Leaders First-person in Biotechnology at Latin America her family to graduate from a university ([https://www.allbiotech2023).org/iii-cumbre-2021/ Allbiotech], 2020)*[https://web.facebook.com/colanenasFirst-person in her family to study/ Colaneñas founder work abroad (2020 2022- present)]*[https://web.facebook.com/BioUTEC BioUTEC vicepresident (2020 - 2021)]*UTEC Full-ride Scholarship holder Recovery of her sense of taste and olfaction after COVID (2018 - present2022).