Her research focuses on the nature of interactions governing Host-Guest systems with biological applications, designing supramolecular systems capable of releasing antibiotics and destabilizing bacterial biofilms by capturing Homoserine Lactones, key molecules in bacterial quorum sensing. To achieve this, she employs molecular electronic structure methods such as Density Functional Theory (DFT), ab-initio quantum mechanical methods, Energy Decomposition Analysis (EDA and EDA-NOCV), Natural Bond Orbital (NBO) analysis, and Non-Covalent Interaction (NCI) analysis.

Dr. Carolina Olea Ulloa is a Pharmaceutical Chemist from Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago de Chile (2010). She obtained her Ph.D. in Molecular Physical Chemistry from the same university in 2015. She has an outstanding teaching career spanning over 10 years at various universities, including Universidad Andrés Bello, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, and Universidad San Sebastián, where she has taught courses and laboratories in General Chemistry, Organic Chemistry I and II, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and other subjects related to health and Basic Sciences. Dr. Olea is the author of scientific articles published in high-impact journals in the field of Computational Theoretical Chemistry. She is currently a Researcher at the Faculty of Sciences at Universidad San Sebastián.

Dr. Olea teaches General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry for Pharmacy students at the Faculty of Sciences of Universidad San Sebastián.