Past PhySU Execs

2024-2025 Executive Team:

Ivan Ovchinnikov

President

Year/program: 4th Year, Maths & Physics Specialist

Future career goals: Believe in 1+1 dimensional theories of quantum gravity

Favourite particle: Tachyon, as it is a very physically appropriately sensible particle to like

Ruyi Xu

Treasurer

Year/program: Fourth Year Astrophysics & Physics Specialist

Future career goals: Get into and finish grad school in astronomy/astrophysics and eventually return home to Singapore and be a teaching professor there.

Favourite particle: Neutrinos, but honestly if nyan cat is a particle it would be an awesome particle and be my favourite

Marty Hewitt

VP Academic Affairs

Year/program: Third year, Physics Specialist

Future career goals: Graduate studies in physics

Favourite particle: Gluons

Edgar Ma

VP Social Events

Year/program: Fourth Year, Maths & Physics Specialist

Future career goals: Grad school in condensed matter

Favourite particle: The electron because it binds everything together

Shivangi Aneja

VP Communications

Year/program: Third year, Physics Specialist & Maths Major

Future career goals: Understanding QFT

Favourite particle: Higgs Boson- because it matters!

Yumeng Lu

VP Asset Management

Year/program: Second Year, Maths & Physics Specialist

Future career goals: Graduate studies in math/physics, and be happy:)

Favourite particle: Photon

Halle Nunes

VP Internal and External Affairs

Year/program: Second Year, Physics Specialist

Future career goals: Become a theoretical physicist (in cosmology) and continue professional acting.

Favourite particle: Photon

Annalisa Teixeira

VP Secretary

Year/program: Second Year, Physics & Astronomy Specialist with Maths Major

Future career goals: Graduate school for Astrophysics or Astro particle physics.

Favourite particle: Muon!

Winnie Jiang

VP First Year Representative (PHY151/2)

Year/program: 1st year

Future career goals: Become a theoretical astrophysicist and professor, and write a book

Favourite particle: Photons!

Adwik Kusumakar

VP First Year Representative (PHY131/2)

Year/program: 1st year

Future career goals: make it till Friday; grad school in astrophysics

Favourite particle: Tachyons

2023-2024 Executive Team:

Sam Lakerdas-Gayle

President

Year/program: 4th Year Physics & Astronomy Specialist, Statistics Minor, Mathematics Minor

Future career goals: Astrophysics grad school

Favourite particle: WIMP

Amelie Zhang

Treasurer

Year/program: 4th Year, Math and Physics Specialist, CS, Statistics Minor

Future career goals: Graduate Studies in Quantum Physics/Engineering, R&D

Favourite particle: Photon :)

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VP Academic Affairs

Year/program:

Future career goals:

Favourite particle:

Ivan Ovchinnikov

VP Social Events

Year/program: 3rd year, Math & Physics specialist

Future career goals: Find enlightenment by computing homotopy groups of different materials

Favourite particle: Electron

Adi Khandelwal

VP Communications

Year/program: 4th year, astronomy and physics specialist, chemistry minor, math minor

Future career goals: Grad school for astrophysics and then work in industry

Favourite particle: Graviton - pretty mysterious and the mystery is what makes physics interesting

Justin Mah

VP Asset Management

Year/program: 4th year, Physics Specialist, Math Minor

Future career goals: Get a high paying job and make lots of money

Favourite particle: Charm quark - because I’m a charming guy :)

Shuhan Zheng

VP Internal and External Affairs

Year/program: 4th year, Physics and astronomy double major

Future career goals: Applied Sciences research in an Aerospace-related field

Favourite particle: Neutron, because when it's in the nucleus, it binds the nucleus together, and when it's free on its own, fewer things can stop it.