The Board
Co-President
Fabian Dickhardt
Fabian is a 4th year MechE PhD Student working on surface engineering and carbon capture. He grew up in Germany and Taiwan and has a weakness for Chinese food. In his free time, he enjoys playing the violin and reading.
Co-President
Mahdi Mazaheri
Mahdi is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT’s Quantum Photonics and AI Group, working at the intersection of quantum optics, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, developing self-driving laboratories for the autonomous discovery of organic laser molecules. He earned his second master’s degree and PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany. With academic and research experiences spanning Germany, Canada, and the United States, Mahdi is passionate about fostering research and industry exchange between Europe and the U.S. through community-building and transatlantic collaboration.
Treasurer
Ian Lindberg
Ian is a 2nd year graduate student in Mechanical Engineering and his research focuses on mechanical design for electric vehicles and clean energy. Outside of engineering, his main interest is in history, and he has worked with academic historians on research that leveraged modern engineering principles to better understand medieval sources. Originally from New Hampshire, Ian enjoys traveling to experience other cultures and learn about their history.
Communications
Jade Eyles
Jade is a Postdoc at MIT EAPS researching seismicity at Mt. Etna Volcano. Jade completed her undergraduate and PhD in Geophysics in the UK (her home country), with a semester abroad in Australia, before moving across the pond to MIT. In her spare time, Jade likes to travel, spend time outdoors, and knit/crochet.
Secretary
Fatima Gunter-Rahman
Fatima is a local alum. She has lived on four continents, but has called the Boston area home for most of the last decade. Outside of work, she enjoys reading, music, and trying new recipes.
Graphic Design
Caroline Mouchon
Caroline is a fourth year PhD student in Geophysics at EAPS, where she studies slow earthquakes and what role they play in the earthquake cycle. She obtained her Bachelors and Master’s in Mechanics and Geophysics in France, her home country. Outside of research, Caroline enjoys biking, running, and skiing, but also trying out new hobbies like pottery or sewing!
Company Outreach
Ching Lam Choi
Ching Lam is a 2nd year EECS PhD student at CSAIL, researching cryptographic approaches to robust and safe AI. Having spent many drizzly summers, grizzly winters in Germany, the UK, Denmark and more, she finds herself drawn back inexplicably still. On a good day, she can be found outdoors climbing or nose deep in a book; on a very good day, she can be found in Tübingen.
Company Outreach
Qian (Anna) Ding
Qian is a postdoc in quantum computing at MIT RLE. She grew up in China and studied in Germany and Switzerland for her master’s and PhD. She enjoys badminton and hiking.
Company Outreach
En-Hung Chao
En-Hung Chao is a postdoc at the Center for Theoretical Physics at MIT since Fall 2025. His research focuses on precision predictions of hadronic effects using lattice quantum chromodynamics, with the goal of understanding the strong interaction. Before MIT, he worked as a postdoc researcher at Columbia University in New York after obtaining his PhD degree from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. He got his engineering degree from École Polytechnique and master degree from École Normale Supérieure (Paris) in France. He enjoys going to all sorts of cultural events in his free time.
Events
David Simonne
David Simonne is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering. Originally from Brittany, France, he holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Paris-Saclay, where he specialized in synchrotron-based techniques. His current work focuses on the design of structural materials for nuclear reactors that can sustain high radiation. Besides work, David enjoys biking, hiking, cycling, reading and video games. Interested in culture and gastronomy, David has studied in France, Italy, Germany, Japan, and Sweden prior to the USA.
Events
Sascha Schmidhuber
Sascha is a PhD student at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, where he works on quantum computing and quantum information. He obtained his undergrad from ETH Zurich in his home country, Switzerland, but has lived in Germany, Belarus, Denmark and California before moving to Boston. In his free-time, Sascha can often be found kitesurfing, windsurfing or sailing on the Charles River.
Student Outreach
Agnes Totschnig
Agnes is a first-year PhD student in mathematics at MIT. Originally from Austria, Germany and France, she also calls Montreal home. In her free time, she likes to cook and run with friends, eat ice-cream and spend time outdoors.
Digitals
Victor Qin
Victor is a 4th year grad student in MIT AeroAstro, studying unmanned air traffic management and multi-agent reinforcement learning. Originally from Los Angeles, he has been adjusting to the Boston winter for over 7 years now, though not without frequent travel breaks to countries around the world. He plays and coaches ultimate frisbee to stay fit, and loves reading science fiction and philosophy in his spare time.
Social Media
Joy Ma
Joy is a computer science masters student doing laser communications research. Joy grew up in Boulder, CO and enjoys mountain biking, cheerleading, and films.
Pubmaster
Theo Käufer
Advisor
Evelyne Ringoot
Evelyne is a graduate student in Computational Science and Engineering, working in the JuliaLab on High-Performance Computing for linear algebra. She grew up in Belgium and obtained a MSc in Civil Engineering from VUB/ULB Brussels. In her free time, she is part of the MIT Figure Skating team, enjoys spending time in nature hiking or skiing, and likes traveling.
Advisor
Fadime Stemmer
As a 3rd year PhD student in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program in Chemical Oceanography, Fadime is studying metalloenzymes involved in ocean carbon and nitrogen cycling. After spending one year in Japan she studied Biochemistry in her undergrad at the Technical University of Munich and spent an exchange semester at Waseda University, Tokyo, before beginning her PhD at MIT. Fadime enjoys Taekwondo, playing the Saxophone and exploring plant-based recipes.
Advisor
Annan Zhang
Annan Zhang is a PhD student in Robotics and AI at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research focuses on equipping robots with novel capabilities to perceive and safely interact with the world. In his free time, Annan enjoys reading and traveling. Having lived in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, Annan calls many places his home.
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