Pablo Macias Lopez (he/him)
Ezra Stiles '27
Pablo is a senior in Ezra Stiles College from North Las Vegas, Nevada, double-majoring in Physics (Intensive) and Film and Media Studies. After his first year, candlelit nights illuminated newfound interests in postmodernist film philosophy and immersive opera through the Columbia Summer in Venice program. During his sophomore summer, he conducted coral reef morphology research in the Mexican Caribbean before studying at the University of Sydney in the fall of his junior year. Travels across Australasia, including heli-hiking New Zealand’s temperate glaciers and scuba diving in Fiji’s soft coral capital, propelled his commitments to sustainable tourism and blue finance, while also transforming the places he visited into the real-world sets and with local casts of his debut nuclear anthology film series, "Pacific Time". Back on campus, Pablo works on the CUPID neutrino physics experiment in the Maruyama Lab, produces semesterly dance showcases for Yale’s Ballet Folklórico Mexicano, and writes for the Yale Scientific Magazine. Pablo hopes to guide students in thinking rigorously about program fit while embracing the vivid cultural and intellectual immersion that makes studying abroad highly transformative—oh, food tastings and music lessons are on him!