Henry Murphy Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

This lab uses a blend of physics, experimentation, simulation, and modeling to study both bacterial biofilms and lab-evolved yeast. The goals are to look at how cells interact with each other and their environment, as well as to potentially gain some insight into multicellularity and its origins.In my first semester with the lab, I helped design and conduct a series of experiments made to try and estimate the porosity of macroscopic snowflake yeast clusters. Alongside that, I also had a comprehensive overview of how to work in a research lab, proper lab safety, and use certain tools such as Biological Safety Cabinets and Confocal Microscopes. In my second semester with the lab, I worked on designing a preliminary Python simulation to estimate the porosity of macroscopic snowflake yeast clusters with purely kinematic diffusion of particles. This process involved figuring out the relevant quantities and steps required for the simulation, coding it all in Python (using libraries like matplotlib, numpy, and xarray), troubleshooting the many bugs that arose, and then trying to interpret the final results to figure out our next steps.

Working with Dr. Sergio deRada, a Naval Research Laboratory scientist, our goal was to take 30 years of global sea surface oceanographic data and look for possible correlations in sea surface data between the El Niño-Southern Oscillation and different regions across the Pacific Ocean.My particular project involved looking for any possible correlations in sea surface temperature and height between the Oceanic Nino Index region and both the East China Sea and Southern California regions. This involved taking the global temperature data in the HYCOM format and converting it into more readily usable data with Python (using the NetCDF, xarray, and pandas libraries), performing data analysis on the converted HYCOM data to look for correlations, changing certain bounds and regions to see if other region combinations provide different correlations, and creating visualizations of this data (mainly with Python's matplotlib library) for the final report.

Duluth, Georgia, United States

In this job, I worked most aspects of the kitchen, including plating dishes and prepping dishes and work surfaces for future shifts. This job emphasized being able to work your part of the machine very well and coordinating with the rest of the team so nobody's getting in each other's way trying to fill orders.

Sugar Hill, Georgia, United States

In this job, I worked just about every aspect of the restaurant from making and cutting pizzas to doing front-of-house customer service to cleaning and prepping for future shifts. Busy nights really emphasized precision and clear communication with the team to not get bogged down on orders. Don't tell management, but I may have also figured out how to out-Pizza the Hut while I was there.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Physics, 3.96 / 4.0

Activities and Societies: Dean's List (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024), Explore Living Learning Community 2022-2023, iGniTe 2022, GT.

High School Diploma, General Studies, 4.39 / 4.0

President of school Astronomy Club for 2 years, Vice President of school Fantasy, Gaming, and Sci-Fi Club for 2 years, member.