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Gina Escobar
3rd Year Graduate Student
Ph.D. Program
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Summary:
Gina Escobar completed her undergraduate degree in Physics at the National University of Colombia. There, she worked on theoretical condensed matter, studying the properties of junctions made with superconductor materials. After graduation, she then studied a year at the Abdus Salam ICTP, International Centre of Theoretical Physics, located in Trieste, Italy. The diploma program there is designed to help students from third world countries to gain experience and training in Physics research. It was in Trieste, while doing the diploma in condensed matter physics, that she contemplated the idea of incorporating physics ideas into biological research. She then began working on applying Carr-Parinello dynamics to model the charge transfer on the elements of the Potassium channel. Gina came to Northeastern University in 2005, where she is currently in her third year of the PhD program in Physics. The interdisciplinary nature of the biophysics program has allowed her to pursue her biophysics interests further by taking courses in the biology department in addition to the core experimental and theoretical physics classes. Working in Professor Armen Stephayants’ theoretical neuroscience group she has applied different techniques borrowed from theoretical physics, to find the principles underlining the formation of connections in the brain.
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