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Jeremy Heyl
Professor and Graduate Admission Chair, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Janis McKenna
Professor and Undergraduate 2nd Year Physics Advisor, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Sarah Burke
Associate Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy; Researcher, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
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Adele Ruosi
Science Education Specialist, UBC Physics & Astronomy and UBC Skylight
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Mai Yasue
Interim Director Education, UBC Partnership and Engagement, Equity and Inclusion Office
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Ania Kwiatkowski
Research Scientist, UBC TRIUMF
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Alannah Hallas
Assistant Professor, UBC Physics Astronomy; Researcher, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
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Alex Anees
Research Operations Facilitator at UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute
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Jess McIver
Assistant Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy; Researcher, UBC LIGO Group
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Derek Gagnier
Human Resources Manager, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Theresa Liao
Communications Coordinator, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Demet Kirmizibayrak
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Ryley Hill
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Leesa Fleury
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Allison Man
Assistant Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Linda Strubbe
Educational Consultant, Strubbe Educational Consulting; Co-Director, Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers
Linda Strubbe, Ph.D., is a science education consultant, researcher, instructor, curriculum designer and instructor professional developer.
Her Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley) and first postdoctoral fellowship (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics) were studying massive black holes in the centers of galaxies. In 2015, she transitioned her career to science education. Linda’s work focuses on university instructor professional development in international contexts, especially Canada, West Africa, Central Asia, and the U.S.
She is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers, and is currently supporting physics departments across four continents who are working to advance equity and inclusion in their universities.
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Alison Lister
Associate Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Lilian Bandeira
International Student Advisor, UBC International Student Development
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Emma Davy
Science Education Specialist, UBC Chemistry
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Marisa Ortiz
UBC Equity & Inclusion Office
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Olaitan Ogunnote
Graduate Student, Vancouver School of Economics (VSE); Black Graduate Student Network (BGSN) Executive
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Francis Kpatakpa
Francis Kpatakpa, Graduate Student, UBC Forestry; Black Graduate Student Network (BGSN) Executive
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Kaho Saito
HR and Executive Assistant to the Head, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Marcello Pavan
PHAS lecturer, UBC Physics & Astronomy; Undergraduate Student Program Director, TRIUMF
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Denis González-Caniulef
Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Kirsty Dickson
Interim Communications Coordinator, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Shadi Balandeh
Shadi is a manager at TELUS, managing a team of data scientists. Her team is focused on natural language processing models and works closely with the Google engineering team as one of their major partners.
Shadi came to Canada in 2012 to pursue her master’s in Physics at UBC. She finished her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics under the supervision of Prof. George Sawatzky in 2018. She then joined TELUS as a business analyst and became a data scientist a year later.
Her curious mind and love for learning and connecting dots led her to a role to build and lead a team of data scientists focused on text mining for call center data.
She has a son and the most chill cat in the world. She loves nature and spending quality time with herself, her friends, and her family.
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Tomasz Andrzejewski
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Raelyn Sullivan
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Catia Baron
Catia is an Experimental Physicist on the D-Wave processor development team, as well as the Lead for our Research Technician team. In these dual roles, she both conducts experiments on novel superconducting devices which may be incorporated in quantum processing chips in the future, and manages the fantastic team that’s responsible for doing most of the hands-on lab work required to keep all of our complex parallel testing and production systems running smoothly (and troubleshooting them when they’re not!). She’s generally responsible for overseeing day-to-day and medium-term activities in the lab. Catia holds a Bachelor’s in Engineering Physics from Mexico and a Master’s degree in Micro and Nanotechnology from the University of Cambridge.
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James Day
Research Associate, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (SBQMI)
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Michelle Medina
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Robin Newhouse
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Shane Moore
Marketing & Recruitment Manager, UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
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Miriam Cabero
Intermediate Software Engineer, EarthDaily Analytics
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Brian Kootte
PhD Candidate, TRIUMF and UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Gary Hinshaw
Professor and Graduate Chair, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Mark Halpern
Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Ingrid Stairs
Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Mona Berciu
Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Luke Reynolds
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Carl Michal
Professor and Undergraduate Chair, UBC Physics & Astronomy
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Luca Egoriti
PhD Candidate, TRIUMF