Structure and Dynamics Group

Jerome obtained his BS Physics degree in 2017 with cum laude honors. For his BS thesis he derived thermodynamic equations for a chain of spins that are individually coupled to different heat baths. His undergraduate studies was supported by a DOST-SEI Undergraduate Merit Scholarship. He has also been an instructor at the NIP and later picked up his MS Physics (non-thesis) degree in 2022. He is currently a faculty member at the Palawan State University.

Allan's MS thesis involved a variational Monte Carlo study of confined quantum particles in external fields, which he successfully defended in 2008. He pursued further graduate studies at the Department of Physics of Osaka University. He obtained his PhD in Physics there doing research in theoretical high energy physics and cosmology, particularly on inflationary models of the universe. He is now an Associate Professor at the UP Los Baños Institute of Physics.

Sheen obtained her BS Applied Physics degree in 2020 with the support of a DOST-SEI Undergraduate S&T Scholarship. For her thesis, she determined the effect of adding additional interacting atoms to the phonon density of states in a silicene junction, using a harmonic interaction model until the next-nearest neighboring atoms. She spent a lot of her free time with her labmates and friends in SanD, which has been a home to her. She is now working as a risk analyst.

Eia obtained her MS degree in physics in 2011. In her research she used epidemiological models to simulate the spread of malware. As a graduate student she was a university RA and the systems administrator of SanD. Eia is a reservoir engineer for the second largest geothermal energy producer in the world at their headquarters in Ortigas. As part of her career development, she spent several months in Reykjavik as a participant in a geothermal energy training program.

Carlos defended his PhD dissertation on spin-polarized currents in nanowires in December 2015. His research was supported by a CHED scholarship and a UPD OVCRD dissertation grant. The results of his work has been presented in conferences around the Philippines, Vietnam, China, and Singapore. Carlos has worked as a University Research Associate for SanD from 2013-2015. In 2016 he joined the Mapúa Institute of Technology Department of Physics.

Rona is a faculty member of the UPLB Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Physics. She successfully defended her MS Physics thesis on spin-orbit entanglement in a two-dimensional electron gase in 2015. She is currently pursuing a PhD degree at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences at the Academia Sinica with a research focus on vibrational spectroscopy.

Donna graduated in 2005 with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics. She later obtained postgraduate certificates in Information Technology from the UP ITTC (now ITDC) and Stanford, as well as a Master's degree in Technology Management from the UP TMC. She is also a PMI-certified Project Management Professional and her expertise in project management has been valued by several consulting and technology firms. Donna has worked in executive positions and project management roles in several banking, financial, and IT services companies.

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.

Xavier earned his Bachelor's degree in Secondary Education (2013) and his MA degree in Education (2021), both from West Visayas State University. He passed the licensure examination for teachers in 2013 and has been a physics teacher and research adviser at the Philippine Science High School Western Visayas Campus since 2016. While on study leave from PSHS, he pursued graduate studies at NIP, aiming to further develop his expertise as a teacher and adviser, and to fulfill his teenage dream of becoming a physicist. He earned his MS in Physics last 2025 and is currently pursuing a PhD in Physics.

Marc graduated cum laude with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics in 2020. For his undergraduate thesis research, he used Monte Carlo techniques and an agent-based model to simulate cell and tissue growth on a plane. Marc is also an avid data scientist and has helped esports players use tournament data to analyze the meta. He now works as a risk underwriting analyst for a financing firm.

Jet graduated from the BS Applied Physics program cum laude in 2026. He worked on constructing circuits for programming quantum computers that are used to study magnetism and phase transitions in spin chains. Jet simulated these circuits on Qiskit, which is the software development kit for IBM's quantum computers.

Kaye finished the BS Applied Physics program to prepare for a future career in medicine. For her undergraduate thesis, she simulated the growth and stabilization of biological populations with individual genomes modeled as a binary string. After graduating cum laude in 2025, she began her medical education at the Mariano Marcos State University College of Medicine in Batac.

Micielle defended her MS thesis on Monte Carlo studies of critical percolating systems last 2012. During her MS studies she tutored students in science and mathematics and later also worked for a quality management company as an ISO consultant. Shortly after receiving her MS degree, Micielle was appointed as a university RA for SanD and held that position until 2013. She currently resides in Winnipeg where she is pursuing a career in physics education.

Cris obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 2007. In the years following her graduation, she has been a senior software developer for an IT firm that supplies integrated general insurance software to its customers. She now applies her expertise in SQL databases as a systems architect for one of the Philippines' top medical centers.

Mel completed his MS degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2017 with the support of the DOST ASTHRD Program. He used density functional theory to perform electronic structure and nudged elastic band calculations to model the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide with an organocobalt catalyst. He obtained his BS degree in Chemistry from UP Diliman and was one of the top scorers in the 2016 Licensure Examination for Chemists. He is currently a PhD student at the Department of Precision Engineering of Osaka University.

Nick graduated cum laude from the BS Physics program in 2017. His research was on finding simple ways to improve the outcomes of machine learning by deep neural networks. Also, as the HPC systems administrator of SanD, he has worked to integrate GPU capabilities into the laboratory's computing facility. He is now a data scientist for an AI consulting and development company in San Diego.

David obtained his BS Applied Physics degree in 2026 and was awarded the Best Undergraduate Thesis in Applied Physics Award for his work in developing machine learning models for predicting the structural parameters of crystals from compositional data. He has assisted in setting up, maintaining, and managing the NIP-HPC Cluster. He is interested in the applications of AI/ML and physics in various problems and works in quantitative finance, specifically on equity risk models.

Alyana obtained her Bachelor of Science in Applied Physics degree in 2023. Her thesis showcased a similarity search technique called locality-sensitive hashing for classifying article abstracts and titles from the arXiv repository. She now serves a universal banking institution as a data analytics officer for business transformation and development, where she applies her skills to drive data-driven strategies and business growth.

Kryzz graduated from the BS Applied Physics program in 2019 with the support of a DOST-SEI RA 7687 Undergraduate S&T Scholarship. His undergraduate thesis focused on parallelization of the density matrix renormalization group with the matrix product state ansatz. He is pursuing a career in data science and is currently an analyst for a company that provides business communications solutions.

Rafael graduated from the BS Physics program in June 2016. He is a Leticia Shahani awardee for the Most Outstanding BS Physics Thesis and a 2016 BPI-DOST Science Awardee. In 2014 he worked as a staffer for the OVPAA-BPhD-2012-05 research project and in 2015 as a student assistant for SanD. He later obtained his MS Physics (non-thesis) degree in 2020. Rafael is continuing his studies as a PhD Physics student.

Krishna finished the BS Applied Physics program in 2020. Her research focused on the characterization of the phonon density of states in a graphene junction with beyond nearest-neighbor interactions. Her stay in SanD helped her grow and improved her research and group dynamics skills through her weekly seminars and board games with her fellow labmates. She worked as a data analyst for a mobile application marketing agency for a few years before pursing an Erasmus Mundus Master's degree in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.  

Jane got her BS Physics degree in 2005. Her research involved the study of phonon thermal conductivity in superlattices. After graduation, she worked as a copy editor of physics manuscripts and a writer of electronic components and computer products articles. She then pursued a career in IT and landed an information developer/architect post for an international ERP manufacturer, where she focused on analytics solutions. Jane now works as a technical writer for government contracting and project accounting solutions.

Mignon graduated from the NIP BS Physics program in 2020. Her BS thesis research was on a computational fluid dynamics simulation of melting ice blocks. After class and lab hours, you could usually find her climbing ropes and lifting barbells at the local CrossFit box. She briefly worked as a geophysicist for an environmental remediation firm, before continuing her graduate studies. Mignon recently obtained an MS degree in Biomedical Engineering from UT San Antonio, and is now working toward a BME PhD in the same university. Her research is on developing hyperspectral imaging techniques for medical applications.

Patrick graduated cum laude with a BS degree in Applied Physics in 2017. His undergraduate studies were supported by a UP Oblation Scholarship and a DOST Merit Scholarship. For his BS thesis he implemented a version of the Penna model that avoided artificial deaths. In 2015 he was also a project aide for the research project OVPAA-BPhD-2012-05. He worked briefly as an NIP Instructor and is currently a data analyst.

Robbie graduated cum laude from the BS Applied Physics program in 2017 and completed the MS Physics program in 2020. He was supported by a DOST-SEI RA 7687 Undergraduate S&T Scholarship. His research involved using density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) techniques to map out the ground phase diagram of a one-dimensional extended Hubbard model from its correlation functions and entanglement entropy. Robbie was also a student assistant for the OVCRD-funded Project No. 161614 PhDIA. He is now a data scientist working for a credit and finance company.

Sandre obtained her Bachelor's degree in Physics in 2025, graduating cum laude. She was supported by a DOST–SEI Undergraduate S&T Scholarship. Her research focused on applying machine learning techniques, particularly a stacked model approach, to classify toxic algal bloom events, while addressing data imbalance issues.

Klarence completed her BS Chemistry and MS Physics degrees in 2018 and 2022, respectively. Her graduate studies were supported by a DOST-ASTHRDP scholarship. For her master's thesis, her research involved the investigation of thermodynamic properties of an anisotropic spin model with a quantum phase transition.

Nica graduated magna cum laude with a BS Applied Physics degree in 2018. Her work on ballistic thermal transport in graphene junctions was recognized by the College of Science as the Best BS Applied Physics Undergraduate Thesis (Leticia Shahani Award). She was supported by the UPAA of Alberta, UP Presidential, and Angelo King Scholarship grants and worked as a project staffer while a student in SanD. Nica continues her graduate studies under the Condensed Matter Physics Diploma Programme at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Paula completed the BS Physics program of NIP in early 2026. For her undergraduate thesis work, she refined a theoretical model for the optical properties of a sapphire crystal, like its index of refraction for different colors. To do this, she combined results from fast, inaccurate calculations with those from a slower but accurate one, while enforcing the requirement that materials can only respond to forces applied in the past (through a Kramers–Kronig relation). She now works as a data analyst for a healthcare provider in Quezon City.

Hans obtained his BS Applied Physics degree magna cum laude in 2024. In his undergraduate thesis, he worked with explainable artificial intelligence methods to identify notable regions that best characterize the decade of time slices of a sea surface temperature simulation model. He is currently an Erasmus Mundus scholar pursuing a joint master's degree in Sustainable Systems Engineering with a specialization track in Advanced Machine Learning and Optimization of Systems.

Jersey graduated cum laude from the BS Applied Physics program in 2021. Her research work investigated the critical behavior of magnetic models of varying dimensions. She is now a practicing data engineer and uses her skills to provide organizations with complex data analysis and help them make data-driven decisions.

Oliver completed the MS Physics program in 2017 with the support of the DOST ASTHRD Program. His graduate research focused on speeding up density functional theory software on unsupported commodity GPU hardware. He obtaind his BS Degree in Physics from MSU-IIT and has had previous work experience in the semiconductor and BPO industries. He is currently a senior high school instructor in San Juan.

Mike completed his Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics in 2019. His undergraduate thesis focused on determining higher order periods of solutions to the logistic equation using a Chebyshev spectral decomposition. Mike served the College of Science Student Council for two years as the National Institute of Physics Representative and as a Councilor. During his free time, Mike does photography and plays football. In 2024 he completed his medical internship at the University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center.

Jacob graduated from the BS Applied Physics program in 2020 as a DOST Merit scholar. For his undergraduate research thesis, he performed molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the break up of colliding clusters of silica dust. Jacob's work on this topic stemmed from his keen interest in astronomy and he has been an active member of the UP Astronomical Society. In 2022 he entered the MS Agrometeorology program of the University of the Philippines Los Baños.

Joyce obtained her MS degree in physics in 2009 studying percolation in different two-dimensional geometries. She worked for STI College Caloocan while completing the MS program and for a few more years thereafter. Since 2013 she has been a full-time lecturer at the Far Eastern University in Manila. She is also a content writer for an educational publishing company.

Steph obtained her BS Applied Physics degree in 2007. She has worked as a mainframe programmer for a Filipino information technology company that provides integrated services for corporate clients. She now develops applications for the information technology department of a financial services and insurance provider.

Naomi was a university RA for SanD in 2008 and she completed the MS program in the same year. Her research in SanD involved numerical studies of the bound and scattering states of particles in various well-in-a-well potentials. After graduation, she joined an information technology services provider in Cebu City. She was later deployed to Yokohama for a few years to develop software applications for a multinational computer technology client. She is now taking her PhD in Physics at the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology.

Sarah graduated from the NIP BS Physics program in 2003 and the MS Physics program in 2009. As an undergraduate, she was supported by a DOST-SEI scholarship. While completing her graduate research on migrating particles, she briefly worked as an NIP teaching assistant before joining the faculty of the Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics (DPSM)of UP Manila in 2005. Sarah is now an assistant professor of the DPSM and plays an active role in developing its Bachelor's program in health physics.

Ajay obtained his BS Physics degree in 2024 as a DOST-SEI scholar. His undergraduate thesis involved employing computational techniques on geospatial datasets to study the association between nighttime lights and COVID-19 incidence. He has applied his skills and knowledge of data science as a data manager and market analyst in the finance and agricultural sector.

Salvador (BJ) completed his BS degree in Physics in June 2016. For his undergraduate thesis he computed exact elliptic integral expressions for the average work done in quenched Ising model ground states. In 2015, BJ also worked as a project staffer for the OVPAA-funded Balik PhD research project OVPAA-BPhD-2012-05.

Wyatt obtained his BS in Applied Physics degree in 2019. His undergraduate thesis used image preprocessing and a machine learning algorithm for the computer vision problem of identifying pneumonia in X-ray images. He later completed the MS Data Science program of the Ateneo de Manila University, where he did research on real-time computer vision applications.

Marc graduated with a BS Physics degree in 2021. Under the challenging conditions at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, his thesis work involved modeling the effectiveness of a vaccination campaign using a compartmental susceptible-infectious-recovered SIR model. He soon after utilized his computer and analytical skills as a data analyst for a proxy advisory firm.

Amancio obtained his Bachelor's degree in Physics from MSU-IIT. He joined SanD as a DOST-ASTHRDP scholar and completed the NIP MS Physics program in 2017. His research simulated the effects of generic diversity in populations of individuals with genotypes modeled by bit strings. He is faculty member of the University of Southern Mindanao in North Cotabato.

Mykhal received his BS degree in Applied Physics from UP Los Baños in 2014. He continued his studies at the NIP as a DOST ASTHRDP scholar and graduated from the MS Physics program in 2021. He has served SanD in various capacities as a Research Assistant, project staffer, and resident yo-yo champion. His thesis work on machine learning used tensor network-based codes for image classification. He now earns a living as a software developer.

Dan graduated from the National Institute of Physics with a Master of Science in Physics degree in 2018. His research involved a theoretical investigation of the role of magnetic orbit to orbit interaction between electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Dan's graduate research and studies were supported by the DOST-SEI ASTHRDP scholarship. He joined the faculty of the Western Mindanao State University's College of Science and Mathematics in 2022.

Matthew completed the NIP BS Applied Physics program in 2019. For his undergraduate thesis he calculated the hydrodynamic properties of submersibles used for rapid underwater coral surveying by computational fluid dynamics. After graduation he pursued his ambition to work in the aerospace sector, becoming a satellite operations engineer and mission planner for the Philippine Space Agency. In his free time, he performs in gigs around Metro Manila with his band Pinkmen.

Joselito studied thermoelectric transport in electron gas conductors in different dimensions as a SanD graduate student. He was also a SanD SA and was in charge of its computer systems. After obtaining his MS Physics degree in 2006, he worked for an international technology company that provides illumination and detection solutions to its customers. There he was employed as a design engineer and developed optoelectronic devices. In 2011 Joselito joined the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory to continue his doctoral research on terahertz spectroscopy. He obtained his physics PhD in 2016.

Chris obtained his BS Physics degree in 2004. He studied the Penna model of biological aging using short bit strings and investigated its relationship to the logistic equation and chaos. He is now happily married to a fellow SanD alumna and provides plants with carbon dioxide while also working as a computer programmer.

Eric obtained his BS Physics degree in 2004. He studied the low energy states of polymers by Monte Carlo methods for his undergraduate thesis. After graduation, he pursued a career in information technology and became a certified Java programmer. Over the years, his programming skills have been tapped by several software outsourcing companies in the Philippines. Eric moved to Singapore in 2007 and works for the investment banking division of a Swiss global bank as a Java developer and systems analyst.

Spence completed his Bachelor's degree in Physics in 2023 with cum laude honors. His undergraduate thesis focused on the thermodynamic properties of small Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick spin systems at their energy crossings. His studies were supported by a DOST-SEI Merit Scholarship. In February 2023 he participated in the HPAIR Harvard Conference to attend a series of leadership talks and seminars. He later pursued an MS Physics degree at the National Institute of Physics with the support of a Teaching Associate position, completing the program in 2026.

Earl graduated from the BS Applied Physics program in 2010. He later obtained a Certificate in Information Technology (Mobile and Embedded Systems) from the UP ITTC (now ITDC). He works for a global energy company where he developed SharePoint architecture for its business applications. He was also briefly deployed to the US as a lead developer for a multisite SharePoint stack standardization initiative. Earl was later assigned to his firm's JDE projects team, which provides consulting and support services for the management of enterprise assets.

Ricelle obtained her degree in BS Physics in 2005. Shortly after graduation, she worked for various customer management firms as a service officer and technical support supervisor. In 2008 she moved to Singapore and worked for a regional financial and banking services company. Ricelle has since been appointed as a business analyst for this firm and leads technology and process improvement initiatives within its customer center. Her expertise in business analysis was recognized in 2014 through a CCBA certification by the IIBA.

Ice earned her Bachelor's degree in Physics in 2025 as a DOST–SEI RA 7687 scholar. Her undergraduate thesis focused on computational materials physics, specifically investigating the effects of surface terminations on the electronic properties and fermiology of MXenes. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Physics at the National Institute of Physics, where she also serves as an instructor. She tries her best in everything she does.

Xavier graduated cum laude from the NIP BS Applied Physics program in 2015. His research on entanglement in low temperature superconducting states earned him a spot in the National Finals of the 2015 BPI-DOST Science Awards. Xavier's BS thesis was recognized as the Most Outstanding BS Applied Physics Thesis for 2015, earning him a Leticia Shahani Award. Shortly after graduating, he became a power trader for a renewable energy company. He is now a data scientist who has has worked for firms in Cebu City and Metro Manila.

Joseph graudated magna cum laude from the BS Physics program in 2023. He was supported by a DOST-SEI Undergraduate Merit Scholarship. His thesis analyzes the performance of different singular value decomposition algorithms on image compression, which can also give insights on how they can perform decompositions of different matrices.

Cyrone obtained his degree in BS Physics in 2025, graduating summa cum laude and as the College of Science's Most Outstanding BS Physics Graduate. His research interests lie in the intersection of physics, biology, and chemistry. For his undergraduate thesis work, he used quantum chemistry methods to study the electronic structure and photochemistry of a cyanobacterial metabolite, scytonemin.

Mary June graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics and with summa cum laude distinction in 2023. Her thesis was on machine learning techniques for Filipino language text classification. She is now looking to expand her expertise in the field of machine learning and data science by pursuing a graduate degree. Outside of her academic activities, she takes part in advocacy journalism and volunteer work.

Mariel obtained her BS Applied Physics degree in 2007 as a DOST-SEI scholar. From 2008 to 2009, she was a Java developer for a software development company where she was tasked to upgrade the online vehicle systems of its corporate clients. Mariel later joined an international insurance group to develop Pega applications as a certified PegaRULES Process Commander (PRPC) Systems Architect. Since 2014 she has been employed by a computer technology company in Makati as a professional programmer analyst.

Kobe graduated from the BS Physics program in the first semester of AY 2022-2023. For his thesis research he worked on the interpretability problem in computer vision by applying the method of integrated gradients. He seeks to continue his interests by pursuing a career in data science.

Kevin finished the NIP BS Applied Physics program in 2015. In his senior year he served as a project aide for the research project OVPAA-BPhD-2012-05. For his undergraduate thesis research he investigated the phase transition in a classical Ising model using cluster algorithms implemented in parallel. Shortly after defending his thesis, Kevin signed up to work for a computer security company.

Eddy graduated from the BS Physics program in 2018 with a cum laude distinction. He is pursuing further graduate studies in Economics at the University of the Philippines Diliman School of Economics. His undergraduate thesis involved the simulation of the radiation-induced bystander effect via fractional Brownian motion.

Alex earned her PhD in Materials Science and Engineering in 2019 with the support from the CHEd Faculty Development Program and the ICTP-OFID Sandwich Training Educational Programme. 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.

Neris obtained her MS Physics degree from NIP in 2010. Her graduate studies center on numerical simulations of quantum search algorithms. She has briefly worked as faculty for the Technological Institute of the Philippines and Far Eastern University. Neris defended her PhD dissertation on nuclear magnetic resonance-based quantum computing in 2021. She was supported by a DOST-ASTHRDP scholarship. She is now a faculty member at the Ateneo de Manila University.

While at the university, Sam did his research on near-term hybrid classical-quantum algorithms and the simulation of simple quantum systems using IBM Qiskit. He completed the BS Physics program in 2024, graduating cum laude. In his free time, Sam likes to stay informed on recent scientific breakthroughs and emerging technologies as well as pursue his hobbies of cooking, reading manga/manhwa, and playing video games. He is currently studying machine learning and quantum computing in preparation for employment within the industry.

Robert earned his BS degree in Applied Physics in 2015 with the support of a DOST-SEI Undergraduate S&T Scholarship. His research involved performing fluid simulations and chaos-related calculations on a parallel computing platform. Robert was also a student assistant for the OVCRD-funded Project No. 141420 PhDIA. He is now applying his programming skills to respond to computer security threats.

Charmaine earned her Bachelor's degree in Applied Physics, graduating magna cum laude in 2024. She was supported by a DOST-SEI RA 7687 Scholarship. Her research utilized density functional theory to investigate how the electronic properties and optical spectra of vanadium dioxide are modified by doping by transition metal atoms.

Clarissa pursued the Materials Physics track of the BS Applied Physics program and completed it in 2024. She was a DOST-SEI Merit Scholar and graduated magna cum laude. Her training and specialization in materials physics provided her with a platform to complete her thesis on the modeling and characterization of prospective solar cell materials. She continues her passion for sustainable development and innovation by working for a firm that provides energy efficiency solutions.

Kryss earned her Bachelor's and Master's in Physics degrees in 2019 and 2023, respectively. Her research on 2D Ising models focused on the effect of spinless regions on their critical properties. She worked as a project assistant for the UP Diliman-funded projects PhDIA No. 161614 (2016-2017) and ECWRG Project 2018-1-009 (2018-2019). A DOST-ASTHRDP scholarship supported her graduate studies.

Arvee completed the BS Physics program in 2026. He has a deep interest in simulations and computational predictions of complex physical phenomena, such as those used in weather forecasting and biological modeling. For his undergraduate research thesis, he explored how representative populations of predators and prey change in time using a statistical algorithm that implements events like predation, birth, or death at random time intervals.

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.

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.

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.