Student ambassador cohort

Welcome to the new cohort of APS student ambassadors.

Congratulations to the newest 2026-2027 cohort of student ambassadors

Meet the 2026–2027 APS student ambassadors. These outstanding undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will lead outreach efforts on their campuses and share APS resources with their communities. Congratulations to the new cohort!

  • Gabriel McCarthy
    Texas Christian University
  • Leonor Andrade
    University of Porto-FCUP
  • Rachel Merrill
    Cornell University
  • Siddharth Chander
    Caltech
  • Akeshi Poornima Aththanayake Adhikarige
    Case Western Reserve University
  • Md Shakil Bin Kashem
    Washington University in St. Louis
  • Junsun Hwang
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)
  • Daksh Sengar
    Bennett University
  • Yamil Cahuana Medrano
    William & Mary
  • Anil Pudasaini
    University of North Texas
  • Madison Wilson
    Berea College
  • Milica Milikic
    University of Novi Sad
  • Àlex Guitart i Manuel
    Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Farzad Toiserkani
    University of Akron
  • Joshua Ejeka
    University of Wyoming
  • Ayomipo Ojo
    University of South Florida
  • Ashok Paudel
    Texas State University
  • Anzer Nisar
    Aligarh Muslim University
  • Sophie Gresty
    University of Liverpool
  • Joshua Sendgikoski
    University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Wisdom Benson
    Howard University
  • Olamilekan Ogunrinde
    Ariel University
  • Md Hosen
    University of Barisal
  • Iffat Arisa
    Pennsylvania State University
  • Mateo Londoño
    Stony Brook University (SUNY)
  • Md Sahadat Alam
    Arizona State University
  • Sarah Onyembe
    University of Oklahoma
  • Anthony Iloanya
    Lehigh University
  • Syeda Sherazi
    University of Central Florida
  • Youssef Ragab
    Alamein International University
  • Mia Son
    University of Texas at Austin
  • Narguess Alizade
    Virginia Tech
  • Dhruv Sachdeva
    University of Petroleum and Energy Studies Dehradun
  • Dorcas Joseph
    Northern Illinois University
  • Mariana Rojas-Montoya
    Ohio State University
  • Indranil Das
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Godwin Inyambe
    University of Nevada, Reno
  • Anu Tandon
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Olivia Bitter
    Northwestern University
  • Kylea Watson
    University of North Florida
  • Netanela Cohen
    Tel Aviv University
  • Isabella Lee
    Stevens Institute of Technology
  • Lameck Mwibanda
    Florida A&M University
  • Sylvester Adjei Peprah
    University of Ghana
  • Andrew Mattson
    Johns Hopkins University
  • Asagwegbe Obaze-Adeleke
    University of Alabama
  • Ishani Senevirathna
    Illinois Institute of Technology
  • Max Chen Huang
    University of Pennsylvania
  • Fathima Farheen Nambipunnilath Siddique
    Michigan Technological University
  • Berkley Delmonico
    Georgetown University
  • Rishika Porandla
    Princeton University
  • Taiwo Akande
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Sadia Schuelke
    University of Vienna
  • Lucas Castelló Ferrando
    Univ Politecnica de Valencia
  • Jonathan Guevara Rodriguez
    University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Santosh Bhusal
    University of Kentucky
  • Adam Bowen
    University of California, Riverside
  • Lucio Murillo
    University of Washington
  • Mukesh Das
    National University of Singapore
  • Mary Precious Feutsop Ngouane
    Carleton College
  • Joseph Barreto
    University of Southern California
  • Lawrence Harmon
    Kennesaw State University
  • Allanur Ansari
    Wichita State University
  • Audrey Beaver
    George Washington University
  • Paige White
    Texas Southern University
  • Sneha Chaudhary
    Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
  • Jacqueline Esimike
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
  • Anna Goodson
    Texas A&M University College Station
  • Md Iftekhar Yousuf Emon
    State Univ of NY - Buffalo
  • Tyler Hannesson
    Towson University
  • Oreoluwa Alade
    North Dakota State University
  • Sargis Gavalajyan
    Russian-Armenian University
  • Alisa Zaitseva
    Las Positas College
  • Gustavo Valdivia Mera
    University of Houston
  • Arpita Tripathi
    Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi
  • Amelia Dorward
    University of Leeds
  • Amit Dawadi
    Clark University
  • Puja Thapa
    North Carolina State University
  • Faith Adeyemi
    Clemson University
  • Farhana Bristy
    Missouri University of Science & Technology
  • Camryn Neches
    Harvard University
  • Nabin Pandey
    Tri-Chandra Multiple Campus
  • Fellipe Aranha
    Bar Ilan University
  • Larissa Barbosa
    Universidade de Pernambuco
  • Ignacio Quiroz Vargas
    Rice University
  • Ibukunoluwa Bukola
    Drexel University
  • Dana Hammouri
    Wellesley College
  • Melody Wu
    University of California, Berkeley
  • Haseeb Ahmad
    University of California, Merced
  • Stefan Köstler
    Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
  • Harsha Manivannan
    University of Maryland, College Park
  • Pravin Subrahmaniyan
    Texas A&M University College Station
  • Mubarrat Mahin Mursalin
    Max Planck School of Matter to Life
  • Zack Disler
    Colorado School of Mines
  • Ignacio Maravilla
    California State University, Monterey Bay
  • Elizabeth Kunz
    University of Southern California
  • Joseph Lau
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • Shobhit Ranjan
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Grace Meyer
    Hillsdale College
  • Daniela Feldmane
    University of Galway
  • Rehan Khan
    Himachal Pradesh University
  • Jaida Hernandez Dones
    East Carolina University
  • Narayan Budhathoki
    University of Akron
  • Anna Pearson
    University of Tulsa
  • Soham Mukherjee
    Rice University
  • Matthew Schiel
    University of California, Irvine
  • Arissa Khan
    University of Iowa
  • Prince Kwao
    University of North Dakota
  • Priyanka Saini
    University College Dublin
  • Erich Wagner
    Technical University of Munich
  • Arnold Rocha
    University of California, Merced
  • Ariel Calderon Rodriguez
    Yachay Tech University
  • Shazma Gilani
    University of Lincoln, UK
  • Madhav Tiwari
    Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Myra Khandelwal
    University of California, San Diego
  • Katherine Campbell
    Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
  • Emily Duane
    Brunel University London
  • Moin Uddin Maruf
    Texas Tech University
  • Bryce Cousins
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Samuel Sahel-Schackis
    Stanford University
  • Charu Verma
    Jamia Millia Islamia
  • Juan Salcedo Gallo
    Dartmouth College
  • Ilan Liebmann, Staff
    American Physical Society
  • Jenn Novesky, Staff
    American Physical Society
  • Sarah Monk, Staff
    American Physical Society

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