- RESEARCH
Research Areas
We conducted Chile’s first interdisciplinary mixed-methods study on nicotine and THC vaping. Our research characterizes user profiles, motivations, access, normalization, and regulatory gaps to generate critical evidence on this rapidly evolving phenomenon.
Emerging Products and Health Inequalities
We examine how performance-enhancing products are embedded within educational and institutional settings. From a biocultural perspective, we investigate how these practices influence stress, sleep, and nutrition, and how they contribute to the production of health inequalities across populations.
We advance intercultural and participatory research on genetics, data sovereignty, and the interpretation of scientific evidence. Through Science and Communities, we foster ethical dialogue on identity, evidence, and the political implications of genomic research.
Indigenous Futures, Solidarity, and Decolonial Bioscience
We explore Indigenous futurisms and border epistemologies to critically examine genetics and epigenetics beyond racialized frameworks. Grounded in relational heritability and narrative sovereignty, we advance a community-centered bioscience that prioritizes land, memory, and Indigenous self-determination.
Projects and Initiatives
Turning Data into Action.
Risk Pathways for Substance Use Among Young People
Using longitudinal data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, we examine the contextual and developmental risk factors that shape substance use trajectories among young people.
Genomics and Knowledge from the Margins
We examine inequalities, infrastructural gaps, and ethical challenges in genomic research, with a focus on center–periphery dynamics and context-specific scientific practices.
- The Articulation of Genomics, Mestizaje, and Indigenous Identities in Chile
- The Dialectics of Racial Invisibility and Hyper-Visibility under the Mestizaje Discourse in Latin America
- Care and Solidarity as Praxis in Chile’s Sacrifice Zones
- Pace and space in the practice of aDNA research: Concerns from the periphery
Decolonial Genomics and Indigenous Futures
We reframe race, epigenetics, and bioethics through the lens of Indigenous sovereignty, advancing participatory research, dialogue, and decolonial scientific frameworks.
Behavioral Neuroscience and Molecular Responses
We investigated how stress and environmental exposures influence the brain, behavior, and molecular pathways, linking early-life experiences to substance use outcomes and epigenetic processes.
Nicotine and THC Vaping in Chile
We are conducting Chile’s first interdisciplinary mixed-methods study on nicotine and THC vaping, examining patterns of use, motivations, access, and regulatory gaps.