University. Originally from Barcelona, Spain, Paul previously majored in Biotechnology at the University of Barcelona, where he also completed two years of the Physics degree. He is interested in sustainability and in using computational biology to improve biotechnological processes.

He is conducting his master thesis at Prof. George Church’s lab at the Harvard Medical School, and his research focuses on creating better computational models of cyanobacteria. These photosynthetic bacteria can potentially be used to produce biofuels, biomaterials, chemicals, and food in a sustainable and carbon-neutral manner. He is interested in understanding the genetics and metabolism of these bacteria, and in using them to mitigate climate change through green biotechnology.

His focus on multidisciplinarity led Paul to conduct research in different fields and institutions: in chemistry and nanotechnology at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Stuttgart, Germany), in genetic-metabolic engineering at the University of Cambridge (UK), in microbiology at NASA (US), and in microfluidics and machine learning at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland). His scientific goals lie at the intersection of computational science, chemistry, and biotechnology, and also other fields such as physics, nanotechnology, machine learning, and renewable energies.