Ella May Billones

Ella obtained her BS in Applied Physics with a concentration in Instrumentation Physics in 2024. Inspired by a childhood dream of becoming a scientist, she pursued research in computational biophysics. Her undergraduate thesis explored the Penna bit-string model to simulate biological aging in sexually reproducing populations, examining how recombination, mutation accumulation, and selection dynamics influence genetic diversity and population stability through measures such as heterozygosity and allele frequency distributions.