Shriya Srinivasan as a dancer and researcher | Snapshots taken from ‘Connecting the human physique to the skin world’ video on YouTube
“The human physique is simply engineered so fantastically,” says Shriya Srinivasan PhD ’20, a analysis affiliate at MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Most cancers Analysis, a junior fellow on the Society of Fellows at Harvard College, and former doctoral pupil within the Harvard-MIT Program in Well being Sciences and Expertise.
Each a biomedical engineer and a dancer, Srinivasan is devoted to investigating the physique’s actions and sensations. As a PhD pupil she labored in Media Lab Professor Hugh Herr’s Biomechatronics Group on a system that helps sufferers with amputation really feel what their prostheses are feeling and ship suggestions from the system to the physique. She has additionally studied the south Indian classical dance type Bharathanatyam for 22 years and co-directs the Anubhava Dance Firm.
“The type of aid and sense of achievement I get from the humanities could be very completely different from what I get from analysis and science,” she says. “I discover that analysis typically nourishes my mental curiosity, and the humanities are serving to to construct that emotional and religious progress. However in each worlds, I’m fascinated by how we create a way of feeling, how we management emotion and your physiological response. That’s actually lovely to me.”
Video by: Jason Kimball/MIT Information | 5 minutes 34 seconds.
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