After graduating from Boston University in 2020 with a BA & MA in physics, Sal spent the the 2020-2021 academic year as a recipient of a Churchill Scholarship at the University of Cambridge doing an MPhil in physics. He is currently at MIT working on his physics PhD with funding from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Sal's research interests are in nontrivial emergent phenomena in quantum condensed matter systems. Highly-entangled many-body systems act as mini-universes with emergent low-energy properties drastically different from those of the standard model. Sal is interested in the emergence of elementary particles and gauge structure in these condensed-matter realizations. Outside of theoretical physics, he enjoys listening to and attending punk rock shows, reading political theory, and everything espresso and coffee-related.