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SimonSehayek education 2015– Ph.D. Physics McGill University, Montreal present Supervisor: Paul Wiseman 2013–2015 M.Sc. Physics McGill University, Montreal Thesis: Refinements and extensions of correlation techniques applied to fluorescence microscopy (thesis link) Supervisor: Paul Wiseman 2010–2013 B.Sc. Joint Hons. Mathematics and Physics McGill University, Montreal Graduated with First Class Honours 2008–2010 D.E.C. Science John Abbott College, Montreal research experience 2013– McGill University Montreal, Canada present Research Assistantship My main focus of research is developing ensemble autocorrelation approaches for rapidly extracting biologically relevant parameters from fluorescence image series. Summer Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel 2012 Undergraduate Summer Research Project Research in complex fluid dynamics as a summer student. publications 1. Sehayek, S.; Gidi, Y.; Glembockyte, V.; Brandão, H. B.; François, P.; Cosa, G.; Wiseman, P. W. A High-Throughput Image Correlation Method for Rapid Analysis of Fluorophore Photoblinking and Photobleaching Rates. ACS Nano Article ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b06033 2. Mikolajewicz, N.; Sehayek, S.; Wiseman, P. W.; Komarova, S. V. Transmission of Me- chanical Information by Purinergic Signaling. Biophys. J. 2019, 116, 2009-2022. DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.04.012 posters 2019 BPS Poster Baltimore, MD Beating Nyquist Limits for the Measurement of Fluorophore Blinking Rates using Image Correlation and Camera Detection Abstract DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.11.3057 2016 McGill Physics Outreach Montreal, Canada teaching & tutoring 2013–2018 McGill University Montreal, Canada Teaching Assistant Tasks included: lab demonstrations, grading, office hours, tutorials. From 2015–2018, I was a TA for biophysics course PHYS/BIOL 319 and had to create assignments, class notes, worksheets, exam questions and solutions. Here is a link to all the original material I made for this course. 2016–2017 Lansdowne Tutoring Center Montreal, Canada Tutor Tutored math, and physics at high school and college levels. Center is not-for-profit, and particularly aimed at aiding students with learning disabilities. 2016–2018 Notesolution Inc. Tutor Online tutoring platform for university-level math and physics questions. 2009–2018 Private Tutor Experience tutoring college and high school level physics, chemistry and math. awards & certificates 2019 Travel Award McGill University Award with a value of $1,000 for poster presentation at BPS 2019. 2016 Travel Award McGill University Award with a value of $1,000 for research collaboration at UCLA. 2014 GRASP Award McGill University Research award with a value of $8,000. 2010 English Honours Portfolio John Abbott College 2008 Certificate of Bilingualism West Island College, D.D.O. programming Programming languages: MATLAB®, Mathematica®, Java™, C Version control: git Also able to typeset using LATEX. McGill Physics domain: m http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~sehayeks/.