I've always been passionate about health and how biological systems work. At 19, I left my home country, Ecuador, to study Biomedical Engineering in Germany, driven by curiosity about the human body—and how technology could help us understand it better.

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I went on to pursue a PhD in Computational Immunology in the Netherlands, where I explored the complex ways our immune system responds to disease. My postdoctoral work took me back to Germany. ​Between 2017-2023, I worked as a theoretical biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, studying how mosquito physiology and environment affect disease transmission. This work required integrating complex biological data into mathematical models, a systems thinking approach that shapes everything I do.

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But then motherhood changed everything.

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Raising two boys made me see how critical it is to educate the next generation (not just girls, but boys too) about the female body. I want my sons to grow up fluent in empathy and understanding. And I want the women in their lives to be seen, heard, and better supported.

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As I became a mother, I experienced what so many women do: the profound biological, psychological, and social changes of postpartum. I realized that some of the most overlooked and poorly understood aspects of health weren't in distant labs or tropical regions, but in the everyday experiences of mothers, including myself.

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This gap between what science knows and what women actually experience became impossible to ignore.

That's when I shifted my focus.

 

I now bring together scientific rigor, lived experience, and systems thinking to decode postpartum. I translate complex biology into clear language. I validate what mothers are experiencing. And I'm building tools (through writing, speaking, and an app) to extend this work beyond traditional channels.