Le Miroir
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by Estefania Barreto-Ojeda
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About Me
Estefania Barreto-Ojeda was born in Bogotá,
Colombia, where she obtained her B.Sc. in Physics at Universidad Nacional de
Colombia. After finishing her M.Sc. in Physics at Instituto Balseiro, in
Bariloche, Argentina. She then crossed the continent all the way up to Calgary,
to pursue a Ph.D. in Biophysical Chemistry at University of Calgary. She
obtained her Ph.D. degree in 2022.
Estefania's research interests mix state-of-the-art computational tools and
statistical analysis to study biological systems with medical and pharmaceutical
relevance. Currently, she works as a computational scientist at Cyclica, where she develops and maintains
Machine Learning pipelines for drug discovery. Estefania is also a data
visualization fan and an open-source enthusiast.
In her free time, she enjoys camping and road-tripping in the Canadian Rockies
and going for long bike rides. She also tries to improves her sushi-making and
baking skills in case another pandemic happens.
You can find her leaning towards the left. And because she wants to make of the
world a better place, she's happy to share the code.