About me
Pia has been involved with research since since the 10th grade, when she first started working in a microbiology lab at the University of Texas. In high school, Pia was on her high school's award winning robotics team, helping lead them to world championship runner up position, in addition to being a leader as a varsity debate team member who traveled the country to participate in policy debate. Pia is also a 2014 Intel ISEF finalist, has won awards and been paid to travel internationally to conduct research, and spoke on a panel with the Not Impossible Labs in 2016 at SXSW. Pia recently interned at the NASA Astrobiology Institute and currently is in her second year of university at UT Austin.