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 Technology Officer. 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
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
Dr. Alysia Garmulewicz
Founder & Co-CEO
Liz Corbin
Founder & Co-CEO
Dr. Jan Botha
CTO
Federico Arenas
AI Engineer
Kate Black
Communications Lead
Pilar Bolumburu
Materials Designer & Researcher
Sherry Lassiter
Michael Werner
Sriya Sundaresan
Ian DeWeerdt
Uli Becker
Alan Gershenfeld
John Warner
Zachary Trautt
