Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Dr. Leslie Dewan #ALD16 @findingada

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Dr Leslie Dewan is the cofounder of Transatomic, a National Geographic Emerging Explorerer and has been on TIME Magazine and Forbes30 Under 30 as well as MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35.

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From Transatomic:

Dr. Leslie Dewan graduated from MIT with a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, with a research focus on computational nuclear materials. She also holds S.B. degrees from MIT in Mechanical Engineering and Nuclear Engineering. Before starting her Ph.D., she worked for a robotics company in Cambridge, MA, where she designed search-and-rescue robots and equipment for in-field identification of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. Leslie has been awarded a Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship and an MIT Presidential Fellowship. She was named a TIME Magazine “30 People Under 30 Changing the World”, an MIT Technology Review “Innovator Under 35,” and a Forbes “30 Under 30” in Energy.

Read more and check out the video below from X, the moonshot factory on YouTube

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