Physics degree, hardware hands. I graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in May 2026 with a B.S. in Physics (GPA 3.6) and a portfolio that runs from thin-film sensors to embedded firmware to optical tables. I am looking for my first engineering role.
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Every circuit needs a power source. Mine is my family. I was born in Miami to two immigrant parents from Uruguay. Most of my family still lives in Uruguay and I spent a large portion of my childhood there. I am so lucky to have them. Their love fuels more than even the light of the sun fuels life on earth.
Los amo con todo lo que tengo y todo lo que soy.
My first research position was at the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory at Duke, on a DOE RENEW scholarship. I worked on the software side of nuclear spectroscopy, teaching computers to find the peaks that identify each nucleus.
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A Monte Carlo simulation that calculates the spin state of every site in a 3D lattice and how neighboring spins interact, given the electromagnetic coupling constant and the temperature. It is ferromagnetism and thermodynamics in code: the coupling drives spins to align, thermal energy fights back, and the simulation finds the critical temperature where the material changes phase, the same physics that governs magnetic materials, alloys, and signal noise. The LED cube on the board out front runs a miniature version of it.
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I have been curious about electronics and experimenting with them for as long as I can remember, and for the past two years I have been at it hardcore: building instruments around microcontrollers, from schematic capture to hand-soldered board to firmware, on Arduino, ESP8266, and Teensy 4.1. This is the work that made me want to do hardware for a living.
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An NSF international REU at Université Paris-Saclay: a summer of lasers, detectors, and optical tables, doing photonics research in my third language.
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I went into this project chasing a reversible shear-activated gel: a fluid that turns solid when you shear it and melts back when you let it rest. It did not work, and why it did not work turned out to be the interesting part. I synthesized two charged polymers, measured how each responds to shear on a rheometer, and presented the results at a national conference.
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How do you share a secret when someone might be listening? I analyzed the BB84 and E91 quantum key distribution protocols, in which physics itself exposes the eavesdropper, and delivered a public talk with a live demonstration.
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Our group fabricated a thin-film FTO/ZnO/Ag piezoelectric pressure sensor. I built the amplifier that could hear it, wrote the firmware that could catch it, and then proved against three separate controls that the signal was real.
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