I'm Pedro Márquez-Zacarías, Ph.D.

Purépecha scientist & educator

Portrait of Dr. Pedro Márquez-Zacarías
I'm a Purépecha scientist, currently working as an Omidyar Complexity Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, in beautiful Santa Fe, New Mexico. I am primarily interested in the fundamental differences between living and non-living systems, and the ways mathematical and computational frameworks can help understand these distinctions. I received my Doctorate from the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences, at Georgia Tech.
In addition to research, I'm an experienced bilingual science communicator (in Spanish/English), through written and audiovisual media, which I use to communicate scientific concepts from an interdisciplinary perspective. In addition to communicating science, I'm interested in the education of underserved communities, and have extensive experience working with refugees, immigrants, and indigenous communities.
An illustration of a mountain, with geometric and organic patterns and colors
This mountain is the outline of the "cerro del águila", an extinct volcano in the Purépecha region. The colors of the drawing come from the Purépecha flag. The geometry on one side of the mountain and the organic green flow at the other represent the bridge from physics/math to biology.