Abridged Curriculum Vitae

Education

University of British Columbia
2017 - Present

Ph.D. in Physics

St. Francis Xavier University
2013 - 2017

B.Sc. with Honours in Physics

Publications

M. P. Kinach and M. W. Choptuik, Dynamical Evolution of U(1) Gauged Q-balls in Axisymmetry, Phys. Rev. D 107, 035022 (2023), arXiv:2210.11198 [hep-th].

K.-P. Marzlin and M. P. Kinach, Exactly Solvable 2D Model for Photon Propagation in Curved Space: Loss of Interference and Bell Inequality Violation, Class. Quantum Grav. 39, 065005 (2022).

Notable Awards

British Columbia Graduate Scholarship
2020 - 2023

University of British Columbia

Walter C. Sumner Doctoral Fellowship
2019 - 2021

Walter C. Sumner Foundation

Mentor of the Year
2020

UBC Undergraduate Research Experience Program

University Gold Medal in Science
2017

St. Francis Xavier University

Tindall/Steinitz Award in Research
2017

Science Atlantic

President's Scholarship
2013 - 2017

St. Francis Xavier University

Dr. M. S. Gautam Prize for Fourth-Year Physics
2017

David Davis Prize for Third-Year Physics
2016

Charles Jordan Prize for Second-Year Physics
2015

David Davis Prize for First-Year Physics
2014

Department of Physics, St. Francis Xavier University



Research Presentation Prize
2016

Canadian Undergraduate Physics Conference, Dalhousie University

Undergraduate Student Research Award (×3)
2014, 2015, 2016

Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Teaching Experience

Head Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia
    PHYS 170: Mechanics 2021, 2022, 2023

Teaching Assistant, University of British Columbia
    PHYS 410: Computational Physics 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
    PHYS 306: Advanced Mechanics 2019
    PHYS 200: Relativity & Quanta 2018
    PHYS 170: Mechanics 2018, 2020
    PHYS 100: Introductory Physics 2017

Laboratory Demonstrator, St. Francis Xavier University
    PHYS 120: General Physics 2016


Professional Affiliations

Member, American Physical Society 2020 - Present
Member, Canadian Association of Physicists 2016 - Present