Gabriela is a Family Counselor, holding a degree from the University of Los Lagos. She has completed two master’s programs: one in Educational Research at the Complutense University of Madrid and another in Family Sciences at the Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception (Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción). In addition, she has earned postgraduate diplomas in Biostatistics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and in Family Counseling and Mediation from the Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception. She is currently pursuing a diploma in Genomic Bioinformatics at the University of the Americas (Universidad de Las Américas).
Her professional and academic career has been developed across primary, secondary, and higher education settings, particularly in the social and methodological fields. She is currently a member of the Genetic Epidemiology and Epigenomics Research Group, where she serves as a Research Assistant in the FONDECYT Initiation Project entitled “Explaining the Link Between Environmental Risk or Protective Factors and Dementia Presentation Through Epigenetic Aging,” led by Carolina Ochoa-Rosales, Principal Investigator and faculty member at BrainLat.
Within this context, her research interests focus on the field of social epigenetics, exploring how genetic and epigenetic biomarkers of biological aging can help explain the relationship between social determinants of health and lifestyle factors—such as education and social vulnerability—and aging trajectories, as well as the development of dementia.
