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# Alexander Popescu

Student at Yale University

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://alexanderpopescu.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Pages

- [Home](https://alexanderpopescu.com/) - Home Research Volunteer Cycling Music Hello, I’m Alex! Welcome to my website! I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at Yale University, where I'm double majoring in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry (B.S. / M.S. program) and Statistics & Data Science. My aim is to pursue a research career in academia, and I am a current member
- [Cycling](https://alexanderpopescu.com/biking) - I am a Category 1 mountain bike racer, a Category 2 cyclocross racer, and a Category 4 road racer. At the 2019 USA Cycling Mountain Bike XC National Championships, I placed 10th overall for my racing age. I am the current captain of the Yale Cycling Team and have previously co-captained the Inland NW Composite
- [Volunteer](https://alexanderpopescu.com/volunteer) - Yale Chess Club Outreach Together with two fellow students at Yale, I taught chess as part of an after-school program at East Rock Community Magnet School. Featured in Yale SOM's "Making a Difference" series. MATHCOUNTS Foundation Through Yale's MATHCOUNTS Outreach Program, I taught competition-style MATHCOUNTS topics every week at King-Robinson Inter-District Magnet School. I enjoyed
- [Research Projects](https://alexanderpopescu.com/research) - Gerstein Lab I joined the lab in January 2024 and will be working on a functional genomics project that involves adding brain tissue data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project to the EN-TEx resource. Peixoto Lab At the Peixoto Lab, which I joined in June 2021, I have conducted research focused on how sleep deprivation
- [Music](https://alexanderpopescu.com/music) - I began playing violin when I was 5, and although I have taken breaks over the years, I am still very close to my violin 14 years later. Playing violin has made me appreciate the art of communication through music––how we connect with one another and tell stories through pieces of music. In June 2019,

## Portfolio

- [Genomics and Astronaut Health](https://alexanderpopescu.com/portfolio/genomics-and-astronaut-health) - Gene expression changes in space, and astronauts are at risk for many problems due to many factors which occur during space flight like cosmic radiation and lack of gravity.

## Portfolio Type

- [Research](https://alexanderpopescu.com/portfolio-type/research)