Michael Yuabov is an applied mathematics major and chemistry and biology minor. Currently, he is applying to medical schools, after meeting the MCAT challenge. He has been working with Dr. Cherice Evans since the beginning of his sophomore year. Before the pandemic, Michael and his team focused on electron mobility in supercritical fluids. The project comprised three distinct phases:

1. The thermal emission from metallic thin films.
2. The optimization of film thickness for back-side illuminated photoemission from metallic thin films.
3. Electron mobility in supercritical and near-critical point fluids.

Adapting to research under COVID restrictions, Michael and the team learned to program numerical methods for differential equations in Igor Pro that would be necessary for studying complex systems. Currently, he is investigating the solvatochromic shifts of merocyanine and its derivatives to model the phenomena theoretically.