DAVID M. MORALES — HTBAA Fall 2026

About me

Hi! I’m David, a Junior year Biotechnology Engineering student from Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia! ❤🇧🇴
When I was a child, I always wanted to become a phycist. Then I discovered synthetic biology. 🧬
I’m a curious observer of the universe, of the tiny persistent reminders that we are the universe experiencing itself through endless cycles of order and disorder. I find beauty in describing, but also experiencing universe by ourselves. I’m fascinated with thermodynamics, the origin of life, complexity science and chaos theory. The last one is the craziest one, as it is related with quantum physics, DNA expression, genetics, evolution, information science, inferential statistics and more!
I’m paraphrasing Stephen Hawking: “We don’t dare to ask the big questions as much as we should.” I do dare. Some of the biggest questions driving me are: Why and how are we conscious? What makes us human? Does life have any inherent meaning? (obviously, all of them from the scientific perspective). I’m in search for answers. 🧠
I’m very interested in systems biology because it is a powerful approach to understand the brain and the consciousness thing. In the coming years, I plan to apply to a Neuroscience PhD program, where I hope to contribute to unraveling these mysteries at the frontier of neuroscience, computation, and physics. ❤

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Homework, Labs, and Projects

See the nav bar on the left to look through my work for How To Biomanufacture Almost Anything (Fall 2026)!