About Bioinspirada

Hi, I’m Elsa Magnolia Quicazán-Rubio. I was born and raised in Bogotá, Colombia. There it began my interest in Biomechanics and in teamwork between Biologists and Engineers to understand biological phenomena. This curiosity, which was first in hummingbird flight, led me to live in California, in the United States. Later, my curiosity about fish swimming led me to live in Wageningen and Groningen, both in The Netherlands.

The fascination that nature-inspired technological and social innovations produce in me brought me closer to Biomimicry and then to Nature-Based Solutions and I had the opportunity to be a Biomimicry lecturer in sustainability programs.

In my Blog I use my interdisciplinary training to tell you about innovations inspired by nature, the environment and art.

And in the Data Analysis section I share with you my learning process through projects.

In 2022 I was part of the sixth cohort of DS4A Colombia (Data Science for All by Correlation One) and I graduated with honors 😀

I have continued to learn about how to take advantage of the wealth of data available to help in making decisions directed towards sustainability. And one of the fields that I am passionate about is data visualization, as you may have guessed, because of my love for visual arts.

On the other hand, this is the first time that I show myself not only as a scientist, but also as an artist, a different facet of my life, which I had saved mainly for my family and close friends. At the end of 2019 I went “public” as an artist with my Instagram account, https://www.instagram.com/bioinspirada/

I love to represent nature in a fun and different way, showing some details that may not have caught our attention before.