Alumni Panelists:

Bethel Lulie

Bethel Lulie studied Biochemistry at UVic for her undergrad with a minor in Statistics. In 2018, Bethel went on to do a Masters of Public Health at Simon Fraser University, where she focused on health inequities in Global Health. She has worked in research studying the intersections of violence, racism, sexism, and ableism here in Canada, South Africa and Ethiopia. Bethel is now working as an associate with a global health consulting group called Proteknon, working on various international public health projects.

Catherine Choi

Catherine graduated with a bachelors and law degree from the University of British Columbia. After practicing law for a couple of years, she pursued a masters degree in Neuroscience from the University of Victoria. She has worked in both academic and industry labs, and is currently a research associate at Stemcell Technologies.

Harley Gordon

Harley is a freelance science writer, a laboratory instructor, and a PhD student in Forest Biology. If you subscribe to Capital Daily, a local Victoria based news publication you may have read some of his work. Following his undergraduate degree Harley worked as an analytical and formulation chemist for a small Research and Development Consulting company. Harley has coordinated a let’s talk science outreach program which oversaw hundreds of volunteers and provided outreach to thousands of students. Harley also holds a Masters degree in Plant Agriculture from the University of Guelph

Clint Seinin

Originally from Houston BC, Clint enrolled in the civil engineering department at the University of British Columbia, with an environmental focus. Upon graduation in 2013, his interest in fluid mechanics and environmental issues got him into the Water Resources Engineering field, where he worked for Northwest Hydraulic Consultants (NHC) as a Project Engineer for two years. While working for NHC, Clint was involved in many interesting projects ranging from water supply studies to fish passage designs, but throughout this time, he realized that he missed hard science and mathematics. Additionally, during these two years, many of the projects Clint worked on also exposed him to the role climate change was having on our surrounding environment. In 2015 he applied and was accepted to UVic’s Mathematics department as a Master’s student, studying the numerical representation of sea ice dynamics and how it was simulated within Earth System Models (ESMs).

While working on his Master’s, his interests in mathematics and climate change continued to grow but he was also exposed to the world of computational science, which has since taken over all his academic and career aspirations. Through conferences he was able to see how important computational science was in the geophysical field and through applied problem solving workshops, he was exposed to its use in various private industries. This new found interest afforded Clint the opportunity to spend a summer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (New Mexico) as an Applied Machine Learning Research Fellow. Upon completion of his Master’s, his experience in computational science and geophysical modelling resulted in a job at the Canadian Centre of Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma), where he straddles the line between working as a scientist and a software engineer. As part of this position he play a key role in the development of the Canadian Earth System Model (CanESM), which provides Canada’s contribution to the international Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and feeds into the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Victoria Hodgson

Victoria obtained her Bachelor of Science at the University of Victoria in biochemistry with a minor in biology. Christine is a Senior MSAT and Operations Specialist at Cellares, a biotech company in San Francisco, California.

Christine Dawson

Christine recently completed her Bachelor of Science degree in biology. After graduation, Christine worked at Phillips Brewing Co. in Victoria. Christine currently works as a senior Laboratory Technician at Raft Beer Labs in Calgary, AB.