Tomás González Zarzar
Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Biography

Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology and Bioethics, and currently Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile . I am interested in elucidating the genetic and environmental factors in complex human diseases and their sex/gender differences. My methodological approach uses Big Data to model the effects and interactions between diverse biological systems, such as the genome, metabolome, and exposome. Similarly, my work in bioethics deals with genomics studies in Indigenous Peoples, the development of sex/gender differences studies in biomedicine, and environmental justice. I earned my bachelor’s and professional degree in Biological Anthropology at the University of Chile in 2012. I was a graduate student at Penn State in Dr. Mark Shriver’s lab until I graduated with a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology and Bioethics in 2020. I was a postdoctoral scholar at Dr. Molly Hall’s lab from 2020 to 2023. Between March 2023 and January 2024, I was an Assistant Professor at Universidad Mayor. Since May 2024, I have been an Assistant Professor at the Medical School and the Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.