I am an Assistant Professor of Microbiology at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) in Lima, Perú. My research interests lie at the interface of genomics, public health, and infectious disease epidemiology, with a focus on bacterial pathogens affecting Peruvian populations.

In 2017, I returned to Peru to establish a research group at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) after training abroad for nine years. At the time, there were no local genomics or bioinformatics capabilities at UPCH to support my research, but I was fortunate to secure federal funds early on to purchase an Illumina MiSeq instrument (one of the first in Peru) and kickstart local WGS-based surveillance studies.