Alysia is Co-CEO and Founder of Materiom. She is also an Associate Professor of the circular economy at the Facultad de Administración y Economía, Universidad de Santiago de Chile and an Associate Fellow at the CABDyN Complexity Centre, Saïd Business School, at the University of Oxford. Her expertise lies within the circular economy, climate change, biomimicry, materials engineering, and digital fabrication. Her research focuses on developing the open source hardware and data needed to accelerate regenerative biomaterials R&D -in particular augmenting pre-existing scientific knowledge through the use of AI. She regularly collaborates with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, is a member of the International Society for the Circular Economy, and a regional co-chair of the Research Data Alliance. Alysia is a Rhodes Scholar and has a Doctorate from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford.
Dr. Alysia Garmulewicz
Founder & Co-CEO
Liz is Co-CEO and Founder of Materiom. Liz is a systems thinking and circular design professional with an MA from University College London (UK). Her professional background encompasses commercial practice, academic research, teaching, and strategic advisory. Her expertise lies within materials engineering, product design, environmental monitoring, sustainability, and systems thinking. Prior to Materiom, Liz was the Managing Director of Metabolic Institute (NL) and led the Exploring Emergent Futures MA program within the Product Design Dept at the Royal College of Art (UK). Alongside Materiom, she is a lecturer at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (ESP).
Liz Corbin
Founder & Co-CEO
Jan is a technology consultant serving as Materiom's Chief AI Strategist. He has over a decade of industry experience across machine learning research, natural language processing, and software engineering. Before joining Materiom, he was a Senior Research Scientist at Google in Mountain View, CA, where his research focused on multilingual language processing techniques and evaluation, and he was fortunate to be part of the team that delivered Google's PaLM-2 LLM. Jan is a Rhodes Scholar and holds a Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Oxford.
Dr. Jan Botha
CTO
Federico is an Artificial Intelligence Engineer with over three years of experience in advancing AI and Machine Learning technologies within seed-level startups across sectors such as autonomous vehicles, computer vision, and graph learning. He has successfully driven cloud-based AI/ML products from concept to market, with a strong focus on AI-human collaboration. Federico holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Mechatronic Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech.
Federico Arenas
AI Engineer
Kate is a communications strategist leading Materiom’s marketing and communications. Following an early career in publishing and digital marketing, Kate has over 10 years experience helping mission-driven organisations with impactful communications. Prior to Materiom, Kate has led the comms team at systems change agency Metabolic in the Netherlands, and served clients such as WWF and the Table Mountain Fund in South Africa. Her expertise lies in brand and content strategy with a specific focus on framing and messaging for social change.
Kate Black
Communications Lead
Filippos is the Chief Scientist and Founder of Superlabs - an independent research institute focused on automating science to accelerate advanced materials innovation. Alongside his work at Superlabs, Filippos is a strategic advisor to Materiom on AI and ML. Filippos studied mechanical engineering at University of Patras (GR). He completed his MA in experimental fluid dynamics at von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (BE) and his PhD at Stevens Institute of Technology (USA), where he developed a machine learning-based metrology platform. He recently completed a Postdoctoral program at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms (USA) where he developed a rapid metrology platform for complex fluids. His expertise lies within materials science, materials engineering, robotics, AI, machine learning, metrology, and open source hardware.
Dr. Filippos Tourlomousis
AI & ML Advisor
Charlene leads Life-Friendly Chemistry Research and Application at Materiom. She received her doctorate in Chemistry from The University of Manchester, specializing in nanotechnology applications. Her expertise lies within life-friendly chemistry, biomaterial design and testing, biodegradability, and ecotoxicology. An integral part of her work is to advocate STEAM agendas and Circular Economies through regenerative design-led initiatives. Charlene is a visiting researcher at the Royal College of Art, working on cross disciplinary projects in collaboration with the School of Design, CERN, and the Burberry Material Futures Research Group.
Dr. Charlene Smith
Life-friendly Chemistry lead
Pilar is a Materials Researcher at Materiom and leads our engagement with digital fabrications labs. She is an interdisciplinary designer from the Universidad Catolica de Chile, and former Director of Technology Learning at Fab Lab Santiago. Pilar's work is at the interaction of design, education and new technologies. She is currently pursuing a Masters in Education and Technology at University College London.
Pilar Bolumburu
Materials Designer & Researcher
Zoë’s worked as a Program Manager for over 2 years, managing multiple projects relating to climate change, sustainability, and regenerative agriculture. She’s passionate about these topics having also spent time volunteering and working for environmental conservation projects across Indonesia and southern Africa. She recently received her PRINCE 2 Project Management Foundation and Practitioner Qualification.
Zoë Kremer
OPERATIONS LEAD
Dr. Alysia Garmulewicz
Founder & Co-CEO
Liz Corbin
Founder & Co-CEO
Jan Botha
Chief AI Strategist
Federico Arenas
AI Engineer
Kate Black
Communications Lead
Dr. Filippos Tourlomousis
AI & ML Advisor
Dr. Charlene Smith
Life-friendly Chemistry lead
Pilar Bolumburu
Materials Designer & Researcher
Zoë Kremer
OPERATIONS LEAD
Sherry Lassiter
Michael Werner
Sriya Sundaresan
Ian DeWeerdt
Uli Becker
Alan Gershenfeld
John Warner
Zachary Trautt
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