Alexandra was born and raised in rural Southern California. She graduated from Caltech with a BS in Physics in 2022, where she worked with four diverse research groups in four years. Alexandra is now a PhD student and NSF GRFP Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science, where she studies experimental nuclear and particle physics. Her research uses a particle detector aboard the International Space Station to search for evidence of new physics.
Alexandra’s teaching experience ranges from volunteering with middle schoolers, to working as a private tutor for AP calculus, to TA’ing quantum physics classes at Caltech. Her areas of expertise include the core physics topics of electrodynamics, statistical physics, quantum physics, and classical physics as well as advanced topics in relativistic quantum field theory, standard model physics, and nuclear physics. She also teaches math from pre-algebra up to statistics, multivariable calculus, linear algebra, and group theory. She is very experienced with scientific computing in Python, C++, Mathematica, and Matlab, and is knowledgeable in the specialized high energy physics computing tools ROOT and GEANT4.
Outside of her work and studies, Alexandra plays volleyball on the MIT Physics intramural team, cultivates an ever-increasing number of houseplants, and reads science fiction.
