I am a biologist and hold a Master's degree in Cellular Biology and Physiology from the University of Paris Cité, and a PhD in Medical Sciences from the Catholic University of Chile.

I completed postdoctoral studies at the European Center for the Study of Diabetes in Strasbourg, France, thanks to a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie scholarship.

Upon my return to Chile, I joined the Universidad de los Andes, where I work as a research professor.

In 2023, I was awarded a Fondecyt Initiation project, which is carried out in the Periodontal Research Laboratory at the Center for Biomedical Research and Innovation.

The teaching areas where I have worked have mainly been training students during their undergraduate and Master's theses, both in France (University of Strasbourg) and in Chile at the University of the Andes.

My line of research is framed in inter-organ communication and the regulation of insulin secretion (integrative physiology).

As has been described in recent years, there is a complex coordination between different organs to regulate pancreatic beta function. Thus, different organs such as skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, liver and others such as the brain, intestine, bone intervene in the regulation of insulin secretion.

I worked during my doctoral thesis and postdoctoral studies studying the secretome of skeletal muscle – myokines and extracellular vesicles – and their role in insulin secretion.

Since 2022, I have been working in a periodontal research laboratory, studying the mechanisms that associate periodontitis with type 2 diabetes. In particular, studying extracellular vesicles obtained from the periodontium of patients with periodontitis and evaluating their function in an animal model to study the metabolic changes they produce in the pancreas.