HG is a Junior Physics major attending the University of Georgia on a full tuition scholarship. He is also a scholar in UGA’s CURO program, being funded for research in a laser lab on campus. His research focuses on harmonic generation of lasers using ultrafast frequency combs to study molecular dynamics. As a younger man, HG aspired to be a fisheries scientist and published several peer-reviewed papers, including the discovery of magnetoreception in three additional fish species. He switched his major to Physics early in his first year of college, preferring a more quantitatively demanding science and being enamored in his first visit to a laser lab. His alias, Harmonic Generation, is a double entendre, since both his parents are also physicists.
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