During my high school I always thought I did not want to become an engineer, but I believe I did not know what engineering really was. During my first chemistry class I liked it so much that I began focusing on that area. I remember at that point I was interested on CO2 carbon capture and was emailing researchers in UK doing work on this to try to replicate their experiments. However, I began realising that I really liked mathematics and I had a tiny interest on computers. I was really interested on scaling chemistry and that’s why I chose chemical engineering, because I felt it combined both chemistry and math to scale processes and I focused on developing projects related to this on my bachelors. After my bachelors, I wanted to explore the area of process simulations, as I felt I was lacking more detailed work, but did not got an opportunity to go deep into that till my masters internship. There I focused on chemical processes simulations models but also was lucky enough to learn the data based models (machine learning). I did not know this was machine learning or AI, for me they were data models to optimize production, later I realised that all that was machine learning. The fact of being able to see how mathematics and chemical process details implemented in some computer were able to operate the plant better, was magical for me. I also enjoyed the conversations on why an algorithm performs good or bad and the relationship with the systems in the plant where is implemented with the process control and automation employees. So, at the end I found something that combined all of my interests: chemical engineering, mathematics and computers. I guess I like the software side of chemical manufacturing.