Integrative biologist, environmental scientist, and environmental microbiologist from San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico. Currently part of Dr. Ileana Pérez-Rodríguez's Geomicrobiology Laboratory at Penn.
B.S. in Integrative Biology from Univeristy of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.
Microbe-mineral interactions, hydrothermal vents, deep-sea vents, deep-sea life, origin-of-life science, metabolically-versatile chemosynthetic microbes, hydrogenotrophs, chemolithoautotrophs, sulfur reducers, nitrate reducers, astrobiology
GEOL-130 Physical Oceanography
Graduate Women in Science (GWIS) Philadelphia Chapter, Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) Penn Chapter, The Fontaine Society, The Netter Center for Community Partnerships, The Weingarten Center, Latin American Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (LAGAPSA), La Casa Latina UPenn, Unlearning Racism in the Geosciences (URGE), Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations (C-DEBI), and International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME).