Jahzeel Martinez awarded 2025 SPS Google Scholarship

About the Recipient

Zone and Chapter: Drexel University, Zone 3

Currently traversing intersections between quantum mechanics, statistical modeling, and philosophical inquiry through research at Drexel University. Raised in a context where precision was not a luxury but endurance itself, now applying this instinct to trace order beneath complexity. Contributing to computational lipid modeling through the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Support program, mentored by Dr. Brigita Urbanc; currently simulating beamlines for the EMPHATIC experiment at Fermilab to refine neutrino flux prediction with Dr. Michelle Dolinski. As Outreach Coordinator for the Drexel chapter of the Society of Physics Students, focused on broadening the culture of physics from within -- helping peers navigate a field often gated by language, access, or silence. Also supporting Drexel’s Climate & Sustainability organization, aligning environmental resilience with system-level thinking. Outside the laboratory: building general-purpose software, studying Mandarin and German, and channeling emotional states through graphite media -- each practice a different syntax for asking better questions. Planning to pursue doctoral research in quantum technologies to design forecasting systems that help humanity face uncertainty not through conjecture, but through illumination. Prediction is only part of the equation; the rest is revelation, because even entropy follows a pattern, eventually.