Harvard-trained scientist & educator

Biology and chemistry tutoring, taught from first principles.

I tutor high-school biology and chemistry, honors and AP, in San Diego, Coronado, and online.

Trained at Harvard Medical School · Weill Cornell Medical College · UT Southwestern · UT Health San Antonio · UT Brownsville
A note to families

You don't have to work through this alone

A hard science class can shake a student's confidence fast, and more memorizing rarely fixes it. I help students see how the ideas fit together, so the next problem makes sense too.

I've walked this path myself, from every angle. My own academic career was fully funded at every stage — college, graduate school, and medical school — and I've spent years inside the work as a researcher and mentor. I'm not guessing about what works; I know from the inside.

Most of all, I'm here for families without an inherited roadmap — first-generation, bilingual, or outside the networks that make this look easy. I was that student. I'll meet you in English or Spanish, and treat your child's future with the care I'd want for my own.

— Ivan

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