👉 Founder + Scientist + Systems Thinker + Global Speaker + Building companies from scratch in emerging markets (LATAM-MENA)
Dr. Luisa Javier is a hygiene expert and water scientist (PhD, KAUST), and the CEO of WAYAKIT. Online she is known as The Hygiene Scientist.
Her mission is to protect water through hygiene.
Research
Her doctoral research at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) focused on biofilm control in desalination membranes, a public health problem in countries that drink water from the sea. Biofilm is the thread that connects her work: the same microbial layer that clogs a membrane survives on surfaces that look clean, in pipes and in water tanks. She works on how to measure and prove clean, not just how to make things look clean.
Companies
Sin Acqua (Mexico, cofounded in 2014): reducing the water used in cleaning.
WAYAKIT (Saudi Arabia): a biotechnology company that makes hygiene products for aviation, transportation, facilities and homes, operating in Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Colombia. Its products have displaced more than 180 tonnes of toxic chemistry across Latin America and the Middle East.
Education
Bachelor’s in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tecnológico de Monterrey
Master’s and PhD, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Recognition
Fast Company Middle East, Most Creative People in Business
Distinguished Mexican Abroad award
Mérito EXATEC award, Tecnológico de Monterrey
KAUST innovation and entrepreneurship distinctions
Writing
She writes Aziul Connections, The Sustainable Systems Lab, in English and Spanish. She is Mexican and has lived in Saudi Arabia for more than a decade.
“She describes her work as a calling: caring for water, through hygiene.”
→ Start here: Sustainable Systems: The Framework Behind Everything I Build
A note on the name
Aziul is Azul in Spanish represents the color of water, sky, and the planet I work to protect.
It is also Luisa written backwards, a reminder that external systems only hold when the internal ones do too.
Connect with me:
Speaking and collaborations: luisa@aziulconnections.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/luisajavier
Instagram and Tiktok: @thehygienescientist
Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/@luisaemijavier