PhD Candidate
University of Toronto, Canada
My name is Faiyza Alam, a PhD Candidate in the Medical Biophysics program at the University of Toronto and SickKids Hospital. I entered the Medical Biophysics program as a Master's student initially before reclassifying into the PhD officially as of April 6th 2022. Prior to my graduate studies, I earned my Honours Bachelor of Science at the University of Toronto Mississauga in the biophysics specialist program with chemistry and math minors. Over the course of my career, I had the pleasure of working in various biophysics labs including Dr. Lilge’s lab (working on an optical stretcher), Dr. Milstein’s lab (working on a sheath flow microfluidic device), Dr. Barzda’s lab (using Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy), and Dr. Prosser’s lab (exploring metabolic pathways in yeast). Currently, I also work as a teaching assisstant in the mathematics department at the University of Toronto Mississauga, teaching calculus, differential equations and non-linear dynamics. In my free time, I love to go rock climbing (primarily bouldering, although I have started to do some top-roping as well). I also play instruments (piano and kalimba), video games (RPGs), and read.