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Mariana is CEO and Cofounder of Biobot Analytics, the first company in the world to bring wastewater epidemiology to market. Biobot uses cutting-edge technology to transform sewers into public health observatories, effectively using wastewater data to evaluate and improve the health of communities. Based in Cambridge, MA, the company is an MIT Innovation Lab spinoff and 2018 Y Combinator participant, founded in 2017 and now employing over 100. In 2022, Biobot was recognized as a CNBC Disruptor 50, and one of Time Magazine’s TIME100 Most Influential Companies. Previously, Mariana was a PhD Researcher at MIT in the biological engineering department, where she specialized in the emerging field of wastewater epidemiology in the laboratory of Prof. Eric Alm. She was formerly a Research Intern studying biodiesel production in microalgae at the University of Cambridge, and before that, a Graduate Researcher at Wageningen University and Research Center in the Netherlands, where she studied the evolution of promoter sequences for rapid rewiring of horizontally transferred genes in bacteria. Mariana has been recognized for her leadership and entrepreneurial excellence through several awards. In 2020, she was named to the C&EN Trailblazing Women in Chemistry. She made Newsweek’s list of America’s 50 Greatest Disruptors in 2021, and their list of America’s 50 Enterprising Idealists in 2022. Boston Globe named Dr. Matus #8 on their inaugural 50 Tech Power Players list for 2022, and TIME100 NEXT recognized her as a 2022 industry innovator. Mariana is honored to be a member of the 2023 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.
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