School: National Central University

Dr. Ernest Macalalad of the Philippine Space Agency is a Chief Science Research Specialist at the agency’s Interdisciplinary Space Missions Development Division and a professor at the Mapúa University Department of Physics.

Marielle graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from UP Baguio and a Master’s degree in Astronomy at Taiwan’s National Central University where she hunted trans-Neptunian objects using the Hyper Suprime Cam.