Benjamin Ameku

Radiation has long fascinated me due to its duality: on one hand, it can diagnose and treat, and on the other, it carries biological risk. This led me down a career path that I had not known existed until my senior year of high school: medical physics. To follow this journey, I enrolled in a combined B.S. in Physics and M.A.S. in Health Physics program at Illinois Tech, allowing me to conceptually connect the foundational topics of physics, like quantum mechanics and electromagnetism to medicinal applications like MRI and PET.