I communicate science, design, and engineering across audiences, from technical seminars to NASA press briefings to international media. I also organize conferences and sessions that bring together researchers across disciplines. Below is a selection of invited talks, guest lectures, media coverage, and exhibitions.
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Invited Plenary Panelist, DARES, Online, March 2026
Invited Plenary Panelist, "Communicating Discoveries on the Search for Life in the Universe," Astrobiology Science Conference, Providence US, May 2024
Invited Speaker, "Astrobiology on Mars," Riverside Astronomical Society, Riverside US, April 2024
Invited Speaker, "Multi-instrument Image Correlation for In situ Science on Mars," Data Science Working Group Series, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena US, April 2024
Invited Speaker, "UV Raman Spectroscopy on Earth and Mars," Planetary Science Seminar Series, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles US, February 2024
Invited Speaker, "Mars Astrobiology 101," Mars Munch Science-Engineering Exchange Series, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena US, February 2024
Invited Speaker, "Jezero Crater Up Close: Proximity Science on Mars 2020," Network for Life Detection Seminar Series, Virtual, January 2024
Invited Speaker, "Searching for Organics in Jezero Crater with SHERLOC," Center for Biofilm Engineering Seminar Series, Montana State University, Bozeman US, October 2023
Mars Forum Series, "Mars 101: Astrobiology," Jet Propulsion Laboratory, August 2023
Postdoctoral Seminar Series, "Mapping Organics and Minerals in Jezero crater, Mars," Jet Propulsion Laboratory, May 2023
Invited Speaker, Von Karman Lecture Series, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, February 2023
Invited Talk, Mars Habitability Session, American Astronomical Society Meeting, January 2023
Invited Talk, "Mapping Organic-Mineral Associations in Jezero Crater," Perseverance Findings Session, American Geophysical Union Meeting, December 2022
Invited Speaker, Biodesign Challenge Summit, June 2022
Panel Moderator, "Life in Space and Earth," Beyond the Cradle MIT Space Initiative Conference, Cambridge US, April 2022
Invited Speaker, "Searching for Organics in Jezero Crater with SHERLOC," Science Visitor and Colloquium Program (Planetary Science), Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena US, April 2022
Invited Speaker, "Searching for Organics in Jezero Crater with SHERLOC," Planetary Science and Astrobiology Seminar Series, Georgia Tech, Atlanta US, April 2022
Invited Speaker, "My Journey to NASA" and "Rover Round Up," First Anniversary of Landing Event for Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover, Exploratorium, San Francisco US, February 2022
Invited Speaker, "The Colors of Microlife: Exploring Color as a Path to Human Empathy for Microorganisms," SynBioArt Session, German Conference for Synthetic Biology, Berlin DE, September 2021
Panel Moderator, "Life in Space," Beyond the Cradle MIT Space Initiative Conference, Cambridge US, April 2021
Co-Presenter, "Statistical Classification of Biosignature Information," Collaborative Biosciences Seminar, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View US, April 2021
Invited Speaker, MIT Abstracts Series, MIT Curiosity Correspondents and Nord Anglia Education, December 2020
Invited Keynote, "Interdisciplinary Innovation," Pune Connected, HSBC Innovation Week, July 2020
Invited Speaker and Demonstration, "SEM Small Talks," MIT Museum, Cambridge US, December 2019
Invited Speaker, "Mediated Matter Group," MIT Media Lab Spring Members Week, Cambridge US, April 2019
Panel Moderator, "Life in Space," Beyond the Cradle MIT Space Initiative Conference, Cambridge US, March 2019
Panelist, "2018 National Design Awards Materials & Technology," Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Award Event, Boston US, November 2018
Invited Speaker, "Wearable Ecology," Myntra & Jabong Annual Summit, Bangalore India, November 2017
Panelist, "International Women's Day Discussion," Facebook Live @ MIT Media Lab, Cambridge US, March 2017
Panelist, "Generation Elsewhere," DeVos Institute Debate, Cambridge US, December 2016
Invited Presenter, World Economic Forum CEO Workshop, Cambridge US, November 2016
Invited Speaker, "Biohybrid Wearables," Digital Garage New Context Conference, San Francisco US, November 2016
Invited Presenter, SXSW Interactive, Austin US, March 2015
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UV Raman Spectroscopy on Earth and Mars" and "Non-Traditional Paths to Planetary Science," Louisiana State University, March 2024
"Towards Living Material Architectures," ARCH 732-008, University of Pennsylvania, March 2024
"Designing the Organism-Environment Relationship," College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University, October 2023
"Towards Living Material Architectures," ARCH 732-008, University of Pennsylvania, September 2023
"Towards Living Material Architectures," ARCH 732-008, University of Pennsylvania, February 2023
"Designing the Organism-Environment Relationship," Active Matter Studio, UC Berkeley, October 2022
"Designing the Organism-Environment Relationship," "Meet a Designer" Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, October 2022
"Towards Living Material Architectures," ARCH 732-008, University of Pennsylvania, October 2022
"Towards Living Material Architectures," ARCH 732-008, University of Pennsylvania, February 2022
"Designing the Organism-Environment Relationship," Massachusetts College of Art and Design, February 2022
Invited Speaker, Sympoiesis Seminar, Urbonas Studio, December 2021
"Designing the Organism-Environment Relationship," "Meet a Designer" Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, October 2021
"Designing the Organism-Environment Relationship," Mutual Affairs, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle DE, October 2021
"Towards Living Material Architectures," ARCH 732-008, University of Pennsylvania, March 2021
Invited Speaker, Sympoiesis Seminar, Urbonas Studio, November 2020
"Experimentation in Space," Zero Gravity Flight Course, MIT Media Lab, October 2020
SciFab Workshop, Cambridge US, September 2015
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AbSciCon 2026: "Data-driven Astrobiology: Integrating the Foundations for AI and ML" (session co-convener)
Goldschmidt 2023: "Biosignature Diversity, Preservation, and Detection through Geologic Time" (session co-convener, co-chair)
Mars 2020 Science Team Meeting 2023: Co-lead of Astrobiology and Habitability in Upper Fan Session
Mars 2020 Science Team Meeting 2022: Co-lead of Astrobiology and Habitability in Crater Floor Session
American Astronomical Society 2023: Session chair
Beyond the Cradle, MIT Space Exploration Initiative (2019, 2021, 2022): Organizer and moderator of annual "Life in Space" panel
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NASA TV, "NASA to Host Briefing on Perseverance Mars Rover Mission Operations," September 2022
JPL Mars 2020 / Sample Return Outreach Video Series, 2023iption
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1. Wondrium/The Great Courses Plus, "The Future of Space Exploration," Course No. 10590, 2025
2. Netflix, "Neri Oxman: Bio-Architecture," Abstract: The Art of Design, Season 2 Episode 2, 2019
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Nature, "NASA's Mars rover makes 'fantastic' find in search for past life," September 2022
New York Times, "Life on Mars? This could be the place NASA's Rover helps us find it," September 2022
CNN, "Perseverance rover finds organic matter 'treasure' on Mars," September 2022
Der Spiegel, "Marsrover findet Hinweise auf organische Moleküle," July 2023
Space.com, "Building blocks of Mars life? Perseverance rover digs up diverse set of organic molecules on the Red Planet," July 2023
Vice, "NASA Has Found Ingredients for Life in 'Every Target That We've Observed' on Mars," September 2022
Science Alert, September 2022 and July 2023
Sky and Telescope, "Perseverance Finds Complex Organics (Not Life) on Mars," July 2023
Spectroscopy Online, "Mars Rover Uses Spectroscopy to Detect Diverse Organic-Mineral Associations in Jezero Crater," July 2023
USA Today, "Did life ever exist on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover finds organic matter in rock samples," September 2022
Yahoo News, September 2022 and July 2023
Futurism, "NASA Rover Finds Organic Molecules on Mars," July 2023
CNET, "Mars Perseverance Rover Finds Organic Matter in Rock," September 2022
Daily Mail / MSN, September 2022
Washington Times, "NASA Rover discovery suggests life could have survived on Mars," September 2022
Frankfurter Rundschau, September 2022
KNX Radio, "Life on Mars? Scientists make big discovery," September 2022
Pasadena Star News, "Perseverance rover finds strong clues in 'treasure hunt' for life on Mars," September 2022
Phys.org, September 2022
NHK (Japan), Feature on Mars 2020, February 2023
The Space Show, "Broadcast 3944 Hotel Mars with Sunanda Sharma," October 2022
JPL News, "NASA's Perseverance Rover Sees Mars in a New Light," July 2023
JPL Website Images, "SHERLOC's View of Garde" and "SHERLOC's View of Organics Within Garde Abrasion Patch," December 2021
MIT News, "Printing objects that can incorporate living organisms," January 2020
MIT News, "Five MIT payloads deployed on the International Space Station," March 2020
Forbes, "Move Over Pixels, Scientists are 3D Printing with 'Voxels' and The Results Are Breathtaking," June 2018
Dezeen, "Aguahoja I by Mediated Matter Group is a robotically fabricated structure made of organic matter," October 2019
Dezeen, "Neri Oxman's new death masks contain pigment-producing microorganisms," April 2018
Dezeen, "Neri Oxman creates 3D-printed versions of ancient death masks," November 2016
ArchDaily, "Neri Oxman and MIT Develop Programmable Biocomposites for Digital Fabrication," 2018
ArchDaily, "Neri Oxman + Mediated Matter Create Synthetic Apiary to Combat Honeybee Colony Loss," October 2016
ArchDaily, "Neri Oxman's 'Mushtari' is a 3D Printed Wearable That Makes Products from Sunlight," July 2015
Design Boom, "Mediated Matter Group's melanin research results in proposal for responsive glass pavilion," April 2019
Design Boom, "Decay by design: organic matter, 3D-printed by a robot and shaped by water," March 2019
Architect Magazine, "This Week in Tech: 3D Printing with Microbes by Neri Oxman at the MIT Media Lab," February 2020
3D Printing Industry, "Researchers develop hybrid living materials using inkjet 3D printing," January 2020
3DPrint.com, "Researchers Develop Multimaterial Voxel-3D Printing Method," June 2018
Biomed Central Blog Network, "Mushrooms as drivers for circular economy?" July 2021
Biohacking Safari, "Sunanda Sharma (MIT Media Lab) Biomaterial & 3D Structure," March 2015
Hackaday, "Mediated Matter at the MIT Media Lab," March 2015
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Permanent collections:
Totems, Centre Pompidou, Paris FR (2022)
Selected exhibitions:
MicroPET, Stellar Space Exhibition, Le Pavillon Namur, Namur BE (2024-2025)
Silk II, Vespers, Totems, Aguahoja, Synthetic Apiary II, Maiden Flight, "NATURE X HUMANITY," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2022)
Silk II, Vespers, Totems, Aguahoja, Making Data Matter, "Neri Oxman: Material Ecology," Museum of Modern Art, New York (2020)
Radiofungi, Maiden Flight, ZG Stardust, "Space Has Arrived," Ars Electronica (2020)
Wanderers: An Astrobiological Exploration, "Beyond the Horizon," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2020)
Vespers, "AI: More than Human," Barbican, London UK (2019)
Synthetic Apiary, "AI: More than Human," Barbican, London UK (2019)
Aguahoja II Pavilion and Wall, "Nature," Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (2019)
Totems, "Broken Nature," XXII Triennale, Milan IT (2019)
Wanderers: An Astrobiological Exploration, "Far Out: Suits, Habs, and Labs for Outer Space," SFMOMA (2019)
Vespers, "Design for Different Futures," Philadelphia Museum of Art / Walker Art Center (2019)
Aguahoja Wall, "La Fabrique du Vivant," Centre Pompidou, Paris FR (2019)
Wanderers: An Astrobiological Exploration, "The Moon," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek DK (2018)
Vespers: A Collection of Death Masks, "Beijing Media Art Biennale: Post Life," China Academy of Fine Arts (2018)
Aguahoja Panels, "Cultural Programs," National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC (2018)
Vespers: A Collection of Death Masks, "NGV Triennial," National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne AU (2017)
Synthetic Apiary, "Alienation: Momentum 9," Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss NO (2017)
Vespers, "Imprimer le monde," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris FR (2017)
Vespers: A Collection of Death Masks, "Fear and Love," Design Museum, London UK (2016)
Wanderers: An Astrobiological Exploration, "Beauty: National Design Triennial," Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York (2016)
Water-based Digital Fabrication, Ars Electronica Festival POSTCITY, Linz AT (2016)
Wanderers: An Astrobiological Exploration, "Exo-Evolution," ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe DE (2015)
Wanderers: An Astrobiological Exploration, "Domestic Futures," National Design Museum, Stockholm SE (2015)