Summary
Juan Keymer is an interdisciplinary scientist and Assistant Professor with nine years of academic experience bridging biological physics, landscape ecology, and nanobiotechnology across institutions from Princeton and TU Delft to Shenzhen. Based between Chilean Patagonia and the Greater Bay Area, he designs and teaches at the intersection of people, machines, and ecosystems, having spun new bionanoscience programs and built ecosystem-on-a-chip platforms using microfluidics. He blends hands-on lab work and theoretical modeling—drawing on a PhD in Ecology, Evolution, and Biophysics and postdocs in molecular biology and physics—to create spatially distributed ecological systems and active-matter research. An advocate for decentralized science and DAO-based education, he runs international labs (keymerlab.nl, biotexturas.org) that mix research, community, and pedagogy in unexpected cultural and geographic contexts.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Mathematics, Licenciatura, Mathematics at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Doctorate Degree, Ecology, Evolution, and Biophysics, Ph.D. + Postdocs, Doctorate Degree, Ecology, Evolution, and Biophysics, Ph.D. + Postdocs at Princeton University
Spanish, English, Dutch, French, Chinese