This week, I met with Konstantin Gerbig at one of the Astronomy buildings on Hillhouse Avenue. Konstantin is a German PhD student in Astronomy. He grew up near Stuttgart and studied Physics at Heidelberg University. Through the research experiences at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy there, he became interested in theoretical astrophysics. During his master’s, he spent a year doing research in Santa Cruz, California and joined Yale for his PhD studies.

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This week I met with Manuel Pace, a PhD student in Electrical Engineering, at Schwarzman Center. Manuel grew up in Habay-la-Neuve in Belgium and studied Engineering then Physical Engineering for his undergraduate and master’s degrees at UCLouvain. He later did a master’s in Theoretical Physics at Imperial College. During his master, he was able to visit Yale through an exchange program and decided to return to Yale for his PhD studies because of the great opportunities there are.
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