Sunanda Sharma, Ph.D.
I am an interdisciplinary biologist and designer interested in questions of astrobiology, evolution, ecology, biodiversity, origin of life, and artificial life. As a designer, I practice biodesign motivated by non-human and non-Earth centric perspectives. I have experience in biofabrication, biohybrid manufacturing, and computational image analysis. I completed my PhD (‘20) and MS (‘16) at the MIT Media Lab as part of The Mediated Matter Group, led by Prof. Neri Oxman, and my BS (‘14) in Biology and concentration in Psychology at MIT, with research advised by Dr. Annabelle Singer and Prof. Ed Boyden. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the Astrobiology and Ocean Worlds Group working on Mars 2020, as part of the SHERLOC instrument team. I am also a research affiliate with the MIT Space Exploration Initiative.
“May the waters remain fresh.”
Email: contact@ssunanda.com
Practice: exsitu.bio / xc2.bio
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ssunanda
Vimeo: @ssunanda
Instagram: @themicrocinema
Behance: Sunanda S
Github: @ssunanda
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8822-7960
Doctoral Dissertation: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/127499 and https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/63724254/designing-the-organism-environment-relationship
