Tomas Suarez Omedas (he/him)
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences
3rd Year / Neuroscience Institute, PhD in Systems Neuroscience
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
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What are your academic and/or professional goals? I am very passionate about education. I want to revolutionize the perception we have about education and create a world in which we recognize the skill of educating others as valuable (and be remunerated accordingly).
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Tell us about a significant moment in your academic journey at CMU so far. A significant moment in my academic journey was achieving the first batch of significant results in my research about half a year ago. It took me a few months of low-quality experiments with poor results to achieve the skills I needed to carry out my project, but now I am moving forward with more confidence and steadily adding results to my project.
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What do you like to do in your time away from academic work? I like to play music. I play six instruments and have fun both playing on my own and jamming with my friends.
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Tell us about your last memorable meal. What was it, where did you have it, and who were you with? A very memorable meal I had this year was in Cape Town, South Africa, last summer. I was backpacking on my own, and after a long day of traveling I went to a Zimbabwean restaurant where I had a stew dish that I cannot name with fufu on my first night in Cape Town. Incredibly flavorful, and nothing beats eating with your own two hands.
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What’s your favorite thing about Pittsburgh? My favorite thing about Pittsburgh is biking. It is fairly easy to bike places here (by U.S. standards), saves gas money, makes you exercise, and is super fun!
