Marienette Vega

Marienette obtained her MS degree in physics in 2004 performing first principles simulations of magnetic heterostructures. Her research was supported by DOST PCASTRD and UP OVPAA grants. She obtained another MS degree from the University of South Florida in 2009. In 2015 she obtained her PhD degree from the Università degli Studi di Trieste performing spectroscopic studies of biomedical nanomaterials. She is currently a faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering Program of the UP Diliman College of Science.

Celso Villano, Jr

Celso obtained his BS Physics degree in 2019 with cum laude honors. As the SanD system administrator, he was responsible for the management of its computing cluster. For his BS thesis he developed a Monte Carlo algorithm that simulates the proliferation of epithelial cells. His undergraduate studies was supported by a DOST-SEI Undergraduate Merit Scholarship. He is now a management trainee in data science at a financial institution in Makati.

Aura Mae Villaruel

Aura completed her MS Physics degree under the DOST ASTHRD Program last December 2015. Prior to joining SanD as a graduate student, she was an engineer for an optical device and equipment manufacturer. Aura's research led to the identification of a subsystem observable whose fluctuations can be used to measure quantum entanglement. She has been working for a semiconductor laser company since 2016 and is now assigned to a post in Thailand.

Vladimir Villegas

Vlad obtained his BS Physics, MS Physics, and PhD Physics degrees from the National Institute of Physics. He defended his PhD dissertation on refrigeration and spin transport in a one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model in 2022. His graduate studies were supported by a DOST-ASTHRDP-NSC scholarship. He is currently working as a faculty member at the Department of Mathematics and Physics of the University of Santo Tomas.

Jan Fronimarc Viloria

Jan obtained his MS Physics degree in 2017 while on study leave from the Tarlac Agricultural University (TAU). His studies were supported by a DOST-ASTHRDP scholarship. For his Master's research he performed numerical evaluations of the elasticity tensors of several binary metal alloys by molecular dynamics simulations. Jan has since resumed his duties as a faculty member of TAU.

Micah Louie Viray

Micah obtained his BS Physics degree in 2025. His thesis was on simulating a planet's chaotic motion in a non-heirarchical, triple-star system and analyzing the stability of its orbits. His interests are diverse, but mostly revolving around computers. Currently, he is self-studying several programming languages (C++ and PHP), game development, real analysis, and some languages (Japanese and Ancient Greek). He plans to return to UP Diliman in order to pursue a graduate degree in Applied Mathematics.