Pre-Conference Career Workshop

Midhat Farooq

Midhat is the careers senior program manager at the American Physical Society. Within this role, she develops career development programs and resources for students and early career physicists.

Sophy Shin

Dr. Soyoung Shin is a physicist and a quantum educator with a diverse background in experimental atomic physics, computational physics, and quantum information theory. As a quantum strategist at IBM, she develops educational materials for a global audience. She expresses her deep commitment to the next generation of scientists through direct student mentorship as an APS career mentoring fellow.

Veronika Kruse

Dr. Veronika Kruse is a theoretical nuclear and atomic physicist who specializes in calculating physical processes relevant to the interiors of stars such as our Sun. They also spend time with summer student interns to develop their physics and mathematics skills as well as provide one-on-one mentoring advice.

Veronika Kruse

Amalia received her Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Grenoble University in 2012, where she studied Yb-based heavy fermion materials under pressure and low temperatures. She later conducted postdoctoral research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on high-energy density experiments at the National Ignition Facility and other U.S. laser facilities. Since 2020, she has been a Program Officer for the Emergent Phenomena in Quantum Systems (EPiQS) initiative at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.