Collin Lewin
President
Collin is a fourth-year who loves studying the light emitted from close to supermassive black holes as a result of material inspiring to its inevitable death. He is passionate about building community through a celebration of individuality, equity, and supporting others in being their fully expressed selves.
Alex Yelland
Vice President of Advocacy
Alexander is a 3rd year graduate student in the astrophysics division studying cosmic rays, stellar physics, and how these subjects intertwine with solar variability. He originally hails from small town, rural Kansas. After receiving his undergraduate education at Washburn University, he moved to Cambridge and joined the MIT weirdos! Beyond the gates of academia, Alex spends his time running along the Charles, playing with tools in the workshop, gathering friends to play tabletop/video games, and, most of all, hunting down any green spaces inside/outside this concrete forest.
Emma Chickles
Vice President of Socials
Emma (she/her) is a third-year graduate student in the astrophysics division who uses GPU-accelerated algorithms to search for merging binary star systems. Before going to Wellesley College for undergrad, she spent half her life in Massachusetts and the other half in Hong Kong. Her hobbies include rock climbing, drinking coffee, and taking walks.
Zhiquan Sun
Vice President of Admissions Initiatives
Zhiquan (Zoe) is a fourth-year student in the NUPAT division working with Iain Stewart on effective field theories of QCD. She grew up in China, spent a year in Washington State as a high school exchange student, and went to the University of Michigan for undergraduate. She spends most of her non-physics time climbing, cocktail-making, or cooking.
Wentao Cui
Treasurer
Michelle Chong
Pizza Social Chair
Henrik Pinholt
Pizza Social Chair
Henrik is a third year student in the biophysics division. He works on theories to help explain the spatial structure of DNA in our cells. He is originally from Denmark where he took a Master’s in Nanoscience, doing single molecule microscopy. You’ll probably find him far away in building E25 when he isn’t playing golf, badminton, serving beers, or enjoying the great outdoors.
Chris Layden
Cookie Social Chair
Chris (he/him) is a second-year graduate student in astrophysics working on optical instrumentation and future space telescope missions. He grew up in Texas and in his free time enjoys playing ultimate frisbee, Texas two-stepping, and solving puzzles.
Laurel White
Cookie Social Chair
Laurel (she/her) is a third-year in the astro division studying observations of galaxy clusters. She grew up in Upstate New York and did her undergrad at Syracuse University. She loves all kinds of crafts and hikes with her dog.
Joheen Chakraborty
Faculty Breakfast Chair
Joheen is a first-year student in the astrophysics division working on X-ray observations of black hole accretion. Originally from New Jersey, his hobbies include playing video games, skiing, and taking walks in the park. Follow him on Twitter @joheenc!
Minh-Thi Nguyen
Faculty Breakfast Chair
Minh-Thi (she/hers) is a second-year student in AMO working on NV centers and quantum engineering in Paola Cappellaro’s group. She grew up in Southern California and spent undergrad studying physics at Princeton. Outside of the lab, she enjoys making sushi, playing poker, backpacking, and endurance sports (when she’s not injured).
Manu Srivastava
Colloquium Lunch Chair
Ruoyi Yin
Colloquium Lunch Chair
Sean Benevedes
Career Chair
Sean (he/him) is a third year student in the CTP working on particle theory, quantum field theory, and machine learning. He is originally from California’s Central Valley and went to UC Santa Barbara for undergrad. He can often be found playing IM Basketball, indulging his new running phase, or contemplating his choices in life as he reads obscure Wikipedia articles about Carl Schlechter.
Noah Paladino
IM Sports Chair
Michael Reefe
Webmaster
Michael (he/him) is a second-year in the astrophysics division researching coronal lines in galaxy clusters. He grew up in the rural Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and did his undergrad at George Mason University. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, classical music, and video games.
Salvatore Pace
Colloquium Committee Representative
Sal is a 3rd year interested in emergent phenomena and generalized symmetries in quantum matter/quantum field theory. Outside of dreaming about physics, they enjoy punk and metal music, are passionate about binge-watching youtube, and love everything coffee-related (aka has a crippling coffee addiction).