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Contributor Biography

Guided by the passion of Jacques Cousteau, from a very early age Cesar knew he wanted to be involved in science, or at least make movies about the underwater denizens of the Caribbean Sea. After graduating from high school in Puerto Rico, he enrolled in the UPR Rio Piedras’ program in Biology where, as an undergraduate, he studied the regenerative capabilities of sea cucumbers. After a couple of summer vacations spent in labs on the US mainland he enrolled in NYU’s Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, where he received a Ph.D. in Developmental Genetics. During this time he dabbled in outreach work, travelling to Puerto Rico to recruit fellow students into NYU’s graduate program. After two and a half years as a postdoc he decided to hang up his pipette and join the outreach team at Faculty of 1000 in its mission to change the way science is communicated.