Brandon F.

I hold an undergraduate degree in theoretical mathematics and a master’s degree in biomedical science and engineering, where I did computational biology research. I’m now a physics PhD student studying active matter: how self-driven particles like swimming bacteria organize into collective motion. Calculus is a tool I use every day in research, so I can show students where the ideas come from and why they work. I also took many AP exams and scored mostly 5s, so I know exactly what those tests de…