Author
Guido Núñez-Mujica
Director of Data Science & Senior Policy Advisor
Guido Núñez-Mujica is a data scientist, computational biologist, and science communicator. He models the externalities of energy policy at the Anthropocene Institute and was one of the activists who successfully fought to preserve Diablo Canyon, California’s last nuclear plant.
Biography
Currently Guido is the Head of Data Science at the Anthropocene Institute and runs his own consulting firm, Greensight Consulting. Prior to working in climate change, Guido was a data scientist in the tech industry, and in 2008 he co-founded Lava-Amp, a biotechnology start-up that aimed to build a portable, low-cost, handheld PCR device, and apply data science to medical diagnostics and epidemiology.
His work has been featured in multiple publications, including in Nature, Wired, IO9, BoingBoing, Biotechniques, and La Stampa. He is also the subject of a chapter in the book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life by Marcus Wolhsen. Currently, Guido is producing a documentary called Silenced Crops on the topic of the destruction of Venezuelan biotechnology by activists.
Guido’s latest activism project is doing light projections promoting the use of nuclear power to fight climate change. He holds a degree in computational and physical sciences, and a Bachelor’s degree in biology from the Universidad de Los Andes, in Venezuela.
