Sunetra Gupta
"I think, for me, one of the greatest moments of making peace with science was to realise that rather than taking away the mystery, it added to the mystery."
Sunetra Gupta is a novelist, and professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford with an interest in infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, HIV, influenza and bacterial meningitis. She has been awarded the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific research. Sunetra Gupta sits on the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press and her fiction works include So Good in Black and A Sin of Colour.
Sunetra has won many esteemed awards including the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London, and the prestigious Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her research. In 2012, she appeared on the popular BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Life Scientific’ to discuss her epidemiological work, as well as the link between fiction and mathematics.
"I think, for me, one of the greatest moments of making peace with science was to realise that rather than taking away the mystery, it added to the mystery."
Sunetra Gupta is a novelist, and professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the University of Oxford with an interest in infectious disease agents that are responsible for malaria, HIV, influenza and bacterial meningitis. She has been awarded the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her scientific research. Sunetra Gupta sits on the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press and her fiction works include So Good in Black and A Sin of Colour.
Sunetra has won many esteemed awards including the Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London, and the prestigious Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award for her research. In 2012, she appeared on the popular BBC Radio 4 programme ‘The Life Scientific’ to discuss her epidemiological work, as well as the link between fiction and mathematics.
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Reality, models, and mayhem
Can science provide a complete account of reality?
Stories of reality
The risk of false narratives in science
The reality of living forever
Should we stop resisting death?
The dangerous misunderstanding of disease
In conversation with Sunetra Gupta
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