Gonzalo Peña
Postdoctoral Researcher at iGEM
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolGonzalo Peña is a synthetic biologist and postdoctoral researcher based in Boulder with eight years of experience at the intersection of biology, automation, and software. He builds and automates biological workflows—having developed OT-2 liquid handling pipelines and contributed to SBOL standards—while mentoring open-source projects like GSoC efforts for DNA synthesis automation and sequence tooling. His background spans wet-lab genetic circuit design, paper-fluidic devices, and computational modeling, bridged by PhD-level training in biological and computational sciences from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Newcastle. An active community organizer and SBOL editor, he combines standards curation with hands-on tooling to make biological engineering more reproducible and programmable. Gonzalo’s long-term focus on “programming biological systems” aims at scalable Agriculture 6.0 and even Mars-relevant bioengineering, reflecting a rare mix of lab craft, software engineering, and planetary-scale ambition.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Comper Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Comper Science at Newcastle UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological and Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biological and Medical Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileLicenciatura Bioquímica, Licenciatura Bioquímica at Universidad de ChileColegio El Salvador
Spanish, English
Github Skills (48)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
SynBioDex/SBOL-examples
May 2022 - Jan 2025
A repository to share/discuss/ask/propose how to represent examples using SBOL and SBOLVisual.
Contributions:11 reviews, 12 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 8 months
machine-learningsboldiscussshareask
RudgeLab/PUDU
Oct 2022 - Mar 2023
Protocol Unified Design Unit
Contributions:54 commits, 30 PRs, 80 pushes in 4 months
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