DAVID RAMIREZ is an ex-scientist who divides his time between Oakland, CA, and Quezon City, Philippines. Once a molecular biologist who worked on the Human Genome Project, Ramirez returned to the Philippines to get married to his highschool sweetheart.

He dabbled in computer science and the last STEM project he worked on was programming part of the information system for the chronobiologists of EUCLOCK, a cooperative project between European research groups on the study of circadian rhythms in model organisms and humans.