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==Bio==
Thalía is a Bioengineering Junior at UTEC and was born and raised in a town in Piura, Peru. Since she was At the age of 13, she has accessed scholarships and programs was selected as one of the top students in her region to study outside her hometown 3 years at COAR Piura, a highly selective boarding school and has managed in her country. During her last year at school, she was awarded a scholarship to be an outstanding student there and universitystudy 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, 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 osteo-degenerative 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.