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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.
Sunetra Gupta Videos
Stories of reality
The risk of false narratives in science
Risk, Evidence and Lockdown
The right response to Covid-19?
The dangerous misunderstanding of disease
In conversation with Sunetra Gupta
The Uncanny Valley
How to model a pandemic
More Videos
The Limits of Logic
Should we embrace the irrational?
What We Cannot Know
What about the universe is left to discover?
The New Enlightenment
Can we reclaim objectivity after relativism?
The Laws of the Universe
Are the laws of nature just human constructs?
Hawking vs. Philosophy
Has science killed philosophy?
Post-Truth and Postmodernism
Is truth just a construct?
After the End of Truth
Is there such a thing as objective truth?
How To Spot Pseudoscience
Separating Fact From Fiction | Massimo Pigliucci
Down the Rabbit Hole
Confronting the limits of perception.
Cause and the Universe
The many-worlds of quantum physics
Beyond Quantum
Is quantum physics wrong? | Gerard 't Hooft
The Good, the Bad and the Unknown
Is morality independent of outcome?
After the End of Evidence
Massimo Pigliucci on empiricism's end-date
The Limits of Science
Truth and the boundaries of knowledge
Decolonising Philosophy
Do we need to wake up to western prejudice?
After Post-Truth
How do we navigate a world where truth is tribal?
I Am Not A Brain
Markus Gabriel | 'The mind' is a vague concept
Truth and the Universe
What are the limits of science?
Explaining the Inexplicable
Is explanation an illusion?
The Reality of Feeling
Reason and Emotion
The Prejudice of Facts
Are there no facts, only interpretations?
Uncovering the Unknown
Does science uncover the truth?
Beyond Knowledge
Is truth an illusion?
Ultimate Proof
Is evidence an illusion?
This is Our Church
Science as religion
The Science Delusion
Rupert Sheldrake on the blind spots of science
Truth, Error & Adventure
Science, Sex and Subjectivity
Is there a feminist way of doing science?
The Elegant Truth
Angela Breitenbach investigates elegance
Poetic Theories
Can scientists learn from poets?
Revolutions of Knowledge
The future of physics
The Eureka Moment
Are mavericks the real innovators in science?
The Origin of Knowledge
Science, Magic and the Inexplicable
After the Last Magician
Blinded by the Light
Metaphors of truth and reality
Everything We Know Is Wrong
Can science alone uncover the truth?
Science… Fiction?
The future of science
Facts and Fantasy
Are facts a fiction?
The Arc of Life: Roger Penrose
A biography of quantum gravity's founding father
Leonardo's Vision
What can art teach science?
The Origin of Everything
Much ado about nothing
Knowledge and Power
Why science is not enough
The Persecution of Heretics
How inconvenient science gets shut down
Alchemy, Anarchy, and Science
Is science the defining triumph of modernity?
Everything Explained
How science holds all answers
The Tyranny of Evidence
Why the absence of proof is not enough
The End of Theory
The rise of big data
The Comedy of Errors
Scientific errors and new adventures
Being Certain
Are convictions dangerous?
Saving Science