
Jeremy Heyl
Professor and Graduate Admission Chair, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Janis McKenna
Professor and Undergraduate 2nd Year Physics Advisor, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Sarah Burke
Associate Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy; Researcher, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute

Adele Ruosi
Science Education Specialist, UBC Physics & Astronomy and UBC Skylight

Mai Yasue
Interim Director Education, UBC Partnership and Engagement, Equity and Inclusion Office

Ania Kwiatkowski
Research Scientist, UBC TRIUMF

Alannah Hallas
Assistant Professor, UBC Physics Astronomy; Researcher, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute

Alex Anees
Research Operations Facilitator at UBC Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute

Jess McIver
Assistant Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy; Researcher, UBC LIGO Group

Derek Gagnier
Human Resources Manager, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Theresa Liao
Communications Coordinator, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Demet Kirmizibayrak
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Ryley Hill
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Leesa Fleury
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Allison Man
Assistant Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy

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.

Alison Lister
Associate Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Lilian Bandeira
International Student Advisor, UBC International Student Development

Emma Davy
Science Education Specialist, UBC Chemistry

Marisa Ortiz
UBC Equity & Inclusion Office

Olaitan Ogunnote
Graduate Student, Vancouver School of Economics (VSE); Black Graduate Student Network (BGSN) Executive

Francis Kpatakpa
Francis Kpatakpa, Graduate Student, UBC Forestry; Black Graduate Student Network (BGSN) Executive

Kaho Saito
HR and Executive Assistant to the Head, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Marcello Pavan
PHAS lecturer, UBC Physics & Astronomy; Undergraduate Student Program Director, TRIUMF

Denis González-Caniulef
Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Kirsty Dickson
Interim Communications Coordinator, UBC Physics & Astronomy

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.

Tomasz Andrzejewski
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Raelyn Sullivan
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

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.

James Day
Research Associate, Stewart Blusson Quantum Matter Institute (SBQMI)

Michelle Medina
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Robin Newhouse
Graduate Student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Shane Moore
Marketing & Recruitment Manager, UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

Miriam Cabero
Intermediate Software Engineer, EarthDaily Analytics

Brian Kootte
PhD Candidate, TRIUMF and UBC Physics & Astronomy

Gary Hinshaw
Professor and Graduate Chair, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Mark Halpern
Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Ingrid Stairs
Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Mona Berciu
Professor, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Luke Reynolds
Graduate student, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Carl Michal
Professor and Undergraduate Chair, UBC Physics & Astronomy

Luca Egoriti
PhD Candidate, TRIUMF