Welcome

Hello! Welcome to my personal website which will act as my portfolio. This website is powered by the Academic Pages template and hosted on GitHub pages. This template was forked from the Minimal Mistakes Jekyll Theme created by Michael Rose. If you’d like, you can fork this repository.

About Me

My name is Mandala Pham, and at the time of me updating this website for the first time (18 September 2024), I am a senior undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin double majoring in geophysics and history. My primary major is in geophysics under the Jackson School of Geosciences. I will graduate with my Bachelors of Science and Bachelors of Arts in May of 2025.

In between my status as a full-time student, I also work part-time at the UT Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) under Dr. Ginny Catania in her Ice Dynamics Lab. My academic and career interests lie in the realm of glaciology with a particular focus on glacial modeling and subglacial processes.

Aside from scholastic and work obligations, I enjoy screenwriting and content creation. I am also passionate about environmental justice and am the founder of UT’s Collaboration for Undoing Racism in Environmental Sciences, or CURES, student organization. In my spare time, I can be found learning a new language, reading up on the history of nuclear disasters, or collecting rock specimens that appeal to my whimsy (and that I think would look funky on my bookshelf).