Philip Flores

Max Born Institute, Germany

Philip earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Physics from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he also served as an Instructor and Teaching Fellow at the National Institute of Physics. His research has explored quantum time of arrival operators, quantum violations of the weak equivalence principle, and tunneling time problems. Currently, Philip is focused on studying spin polarization in photoionization of chiral molecules.

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Reggie Bernardo

Albert Einstein Institute, Germany

Reggie earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Physics from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where he also served as an Instructor and Assistant Professor. He is the first homegrown Filipino Gravitational Physicist. His doctoral research focused on compact objects, cosmologies, and gravitational perturbations within scalar-tensor theories of gravity. His interests span cosmology, gravitational waves, dark energy, data analysis, machine learning, and physics education.

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Cherrie Olaya

RIKEN, Japan

Cherrie earned her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD in Physics from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she also served as an Instructor at the National Institute of Physics. Her doctoral research focused on developing an optical setup to simultaneously measure reflectivity and Goos-Hanchen (GH) shift, significantly enhancing the angular GH shift by exploiting the beam propagation dependence and focusing the incident beam to a small waist. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at RIKEN, Japan, where she continues to explore beam displacements for detecting changes in material refractive indices.

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Jane Garcia

Johns Hopkins University, USA

Jane earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Physics from the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she also served as an Instructor. Her research focused on investigating steady-state wealth distribution in a kinetic model of gambling. After her Master’s, she went to the International Centre of Theoretical Physics in Italy as a research student. She is now a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University, where she is working to understand the self-organization of topological defects in liquid crystal phase transitions.

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Frankie Palabrica

Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Frankie earned her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Ateneo de Manila University. Her thesis focused on studying the use of ascetic materials for armor in contact sports. After completing her Bachelor’s, she interned at the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, where she conducted experiments on the detection of gamma radiation from Cf-252. She is currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Physics at the same university, and is also an educational content creator on TikTok.

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Mika San Diego

Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines

Mika earned her Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Ateneo de Manila University, where her research focused on using biomass to effectively remove phosphate contaminants from wastewater, exploring sustainable, plant-based methods for environmental restoration. Now, she administers Fremont Learning Academy, Inc., a STEM-focused institution, where she channels her passion for science and education to inspire the next generation of innovators.