Tutor details
Michelle
Personal Statement
Michelle is a PhD student in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Chicago studying learning and memory in the brain. Prior to pursuing her PhD, she got her bachelors in Astrophysics from Brown University and Masters in Beam and Accelerator Physics from the US Particle Accelerator School – Indiana University. She did this while working as a theoretical neuroscience researcher in the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University prior to graduate school. Michelle is passionate about all STEM topics and loves sharing that passion with her students - just ask her a question about the brain or the universe and she will happily ramble about their complexities. She takes a personalized approach to each student based on their interests and needs, whether they want to explore a topic of their own interest or they need to prepare for an upcoming exam. She enjoys building a one-on-one rapport with each student and fostering that relationship across the student’s academic career. This often includes exposing the student to subfields that they may not have known existed but help enliven their own passions and confidence.
Education
S.C.B. Astrophysics - Brown University
M.S. Physics Indiana University
PhD student at University of Chicago
Subjects
Awards and Recognitions
Cibola Fellowship Recipient-2019
Los Alamos Space Radiation Effects Summer School-2019
U.S. Particle Accelerator School Scholarship to fund attendance-2019
NASA Rhode Island Space Grant-2017
American Physical Society Division of Physics of Beams U.S. Particle Accelerator School travel scholarship-2019
Testimonials
"When the pandemic hit, I did not know how the disease models worked. Michelle showed us how real researchers model COVID and how we could ask our own questions with those models" - Proud Student