Diego Maureira graduated as a biochemical civil engineer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in 2016. Then he entered the Master's in Engineering Sciences with a major in Biochemical Engineering from the same university, graduating in 2019. He is currently developing his doctoral thesis in biotechnology entitled "Immobilization of formate dehydrogenase (FDH) and vanadium nitrogenase (V-Nase) in carbon felt electrodes with metallic nanoparticles, for the electrochemical fixation of CO2". His research lines are biotechnologies for the treatment of water and gaseous pollutants.