Principal Researchers

Name	University	Area	Research Line	Email
Juan Asenjo	Universidad de Chile	Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Protein Separation, Modelling Biological Systems and Extremophiles	MM MG BI PE ME	juasenjo@ing.uchile.cl
Gonzalo Navarro	Universidad de Chile	Design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, text databases, compressed data structures, metric databases	BI	gnavarro@dcc.uchile.cl
Alejandro Buschmann	Universidad de los Lagos	Algae cultivation, integrated crops, coastal economy	MG	abuschma@ulagos.cl
Álvaro Olivera	Universidad de Chile	Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Protein Engineering, Structural Bioinformatics, Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Synthetic Biology	ME BI PE MM	aolivera@ing.uchile.cl
Barbara Andrews	Universidad de Chile	Biotechnology, Metabolic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering	ME PE	bandrews@ing.uchile.cl
María Elena Lienqueo	Universidad de Chile	Biofuel Production; Biomolecule Separations and Purification;Production of relevant enzymes in biotechnology	MG MM PE	mlienque@ing.uchile.cl
Carolina Shene	Universidad de la Frontera	Bioprocesses, fermentation kinetics of bacteria of use and / or interest for the food industry, modeling, simulation and optimization of fermentation processes	ME MM	carolina.shene@ufro.cl
Cristina Dorador	Universidad de Antofagasta	Microbial ecology, limnology, bioactive compounds of bacteria and fungi, biogeochemistry.	MG	cristina.dorador@uantof.cl
Mauricio Marín	Universidad de Santiago	Applications of parallel and distributed computing in scalable infrastructure for the Web	BI	mauricio.marin@usach.cl
Benito Gómez	Universidad de Antofagasta	Microbiology of extreme environments, biochemistry and physiology of microalgae, biotechnological uses of photosynthetic microorganisms of the Atacama desert	MG	bgomez@uantof.cl

Associate Researchers

Name	University	Area	Research Line	email
Ana Lucia Prieto	Universidad de Chile	Hydrogen production using bioactive membranes, biofilm applications for wastewater treatment, biotechnology and membrane separation, water-energy nexus and resource recovery from wastes.	MG	ana.prieto@uchile.cl
Pamela Fernández	Universidad de Los Lagos	Macroalgae; climate change; eco-fisiologia, ocean acidification	MG	pamela.fernandez@ulagos.cl
Cecilia Hernandez	Universidad de Concepción	Algorithms and data structures; Distributed and parallel systems; Graph compression	BI	cecihernandez@udec.cl
Rodrigo Navia	Universidad de la Frontera	Bioenergy, biomaterials, waste to energy and materials, bioprocess engineering	MG	rodrigo.navia@ufrontera.cl
Carolina Bonanic	Universidad de Santiago	Parallel computing, distributed systems, search engines, databases, big data	BI	carolina.bonacic@usach.cl
Alexandra Galetovic	Universidad de Antofagasta	Metabolites of Cyanobacteria, Biochemistry and Phycology. Clinical metagenomics of viruses	MG	alexandra.galetovic@uantof.cl
José Cristian Salgado	Universidad de Chile	Mathematical modeling, Molecular Modeling, Process Control, Systems Biology, Computational Biology, Automatic Modeling	MM	JSALGADO@ING.UCHILE.CL
Patricio Cumsille	Universidad del Bio Bio	Mathematical modeling and numerical simulation of biological systems	MM	PCUMSILL@GMAIL.COM
Ziomara Gerdtzen	Universidad de Chile	Cell culture, cell engineering, culture media design, bioprocess optimization, mathematical modeling for biosystems, biotechnology, systems biolog	ME;PE	ZGERDTZE@ING.UCHILE.CL
Carolina Camus	Universidad de los Lagos	Sustainable aquaculture of macroalgae. Genetic improvement of algae. Study of complex macroalgae life cycles	MG	carolina.camus@gmail.com
Lidia Zuñiga	Universidad de Antofagasta	Reproductive Biology, Physiology of the Oviduct, Mechanism of action of estrogens, Transcriptomics, Proteomic	MG	lidia.zuniga@uantof.cl
Patricio Diaz	Universidad de los Lagos	Harmful Algal Blooms; Phytoplankton Ecology; Coastal oceanography; Estuarine systems	MG	patriciodiaz@uach.cl

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