Alex</span> ;earned her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2019 with the support from the CHEd Faculty Development Program and the <a href="https://ofid.ictp.it/">ICTP-OFID Sandwich Training Educational Programme</a>. She was the Most Outstanding PhD Graduate of the College of Science for the Academic Year 2018-2019. Her dissertation was a theoretical study of how gas molecules like carbon dioxide adsorb on boron nanoclusters. She is a faculty member of the UPLB Institute of Physics.