Sasha Novack is an award winning cellist and physicist based in Boulder. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he went to LaGuardia High School where he studied cello and trombone. He then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, receiving a BSc in Physics and a Minor in Music from Johns Hopkins University (JHU). There, he worked in a multitude of labs, doing everything from designing physics lab course curricula to liquid crystal research to cosmology while participating in various campus musicals and orchestral events.
Sasha is currently a Technical Writer at Maxar technologies and a Research Associate for the University of Colorado at Boulder working on the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Physics Education Research. He has also worked with HASEL actuators, biochips, Unity and interactive musical jam stations to better understand creative solutions for interdisciplinary topics.