People

A collaborative group

Students and postdoctoral researchers are part of the intellectual life of the group. Work ranges across quantum gravity, field theory, and strongly correlated systems, often in collaboration with researchers elsewhere.

Current

Students and postdocs

Prateksh Dhivakar

Postdoctoral fellow · Co-supervised

2024–present

William Harvey

PhD student

2023–present

Thomas Martin

Undergraduate researcher

2026–27

Former

Students and postdocs

Jordan Cotler

Research mentee and collaborator during his Stanford PhD

2016–20Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Amir Raz

PhD student, co-advised

2021–25Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago

Eric Mefford

Postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised

2021–24Lecturer, University of Tampa

Akash Jain

Postdoctoral fellow, co-supervised

2020–21Postdoctoral researcher, University of Oxford

Takahiro Uzu

MSc student

2022–24Teacher Training Programme, University of Cambridge

Jeffrey Morais

MSc student

2024–25

William Harvey

MSc student

2020–22PhD student, University of Victoria

Alexander Sheynis

MSc student

2020–22Lecturer

Jason Elhaderi

MS student

2017–19PhD student, University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Priti Patil

MS student

2017–19PhD student, University of California, Davis

Sky Nelson-Isaacs

MS student

2016–17High-school teacher, El Cerrito

Gaurang Parkar

MS student

2016–17PhD student, University of Stavanger

Matthew Newton

Undergraduate researcher

2023–24MSc student, University of Alberta

Jiabao Yang

Undergraduate researcher

2019PhD student, Cornell University

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Prospective researchers

Prospective graduate students and postdoctoral researchers may write to kristanj@uvic.ca about current opportunities.