Anthony Aportela
Physics
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Profile
I am a first-generation Cuban American born and raised in the Atlanta area. I studied physics at Georgia Tech and now I feel lucky to be starting the first year of my graduate degree in the UCSD physics department. I somewhat naively knew that I wanted to be a physicist since I was in middle school. At the time I didn’t really have a tight grasp of what physicists do or what research really was. But my time at Georgia Tech proved to me that I did in fact love physics and that I really do want to be a physicist. I spent 3 and a half years of my undergraduate career working in research under Dr. Flavio Fenton in the Complex Heart Arrhythmias and other Oscillating Systems lab where my primary focus was on computational modeling of reaction-diffusive media. My research interests are in computation, quantitative biology, and information theory. Once I graduate, I hope to continue doing research, but just as important to me is becoming a good teacher. In my free time, I like learning languages, hiking, and building things.