Marcelo Astroza
Assistant Professor, Biotechnology Department at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana
Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
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Top SchoolMarcelo Astroza is an assistant professor in biotechnology with 11 years of research experience probing how metabolic and genetic regulation enable cellular reprogramming. With a PhD in Bioengineering and postdoctoral training at UC San Diego and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, he blends computational biology, biomathematics, and experimental metabolic engineering to dissect phenotype switching from embryos to industrial microbes. He leads the Rivas Lab at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, translating quantitative models into testable hypotheses for adaptive cellular behavior. Marcelo’s work sits at the interface of theory and practice, leveraging computation to reveal nonobvious regulatory trade-offs that drive robust adaptation in diverse biological contexts.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBiochemical Engineer, Metabolic Engineering, Biochemical Engineer, Metabolic Engineering at Pontificia Universidad Católica de ValparaísoUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
mappings5
genomes4
sympy3
bioinformatics2
genomics2
mathematical-programming1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mrivas/RNAchrom
Aug 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:60 commits, 6 pushes in 4 years 10 months
mrivas/ModellingMetabolism
Aug 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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