Finding my inner selfie, Yolanda Ohene
Recorded at Ada Lovelace Day Live at The IET on 8 October 2019
Yolanda Ohene takes a look at how we can peer inside our own bodies to see how they work.
Yolanda Ohene
Yolanda Ohene is a bio-physicist at University College London where she is completing her PhD on developing new MRI techniques to image the brain. Yolanda is an avid science communicator, having featured on the BBC Tomorrow's World Live, given talks at Cheltenham Science festival, Wilderness festival and in Einstein’s Garden at Greenman festival. Yolanda is also a co-founder of the Minorities in STEM network (MinoritySTEM) to connect, support and promote those studying and working in STEM subjects from ethnic minority backgrounds.
Twitter: y_ohene
About Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths which aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and create new role models for both girls and women studying or working in STEM.
Ada Lovelace Day Live 2023 was held at the Royal Institution on Tuesday 10 October. It was hosted by comedian Helen Arney, and featured Prof Jennifer Rohn, head of the Centre for Urological Biology UCL; Dr Azza Eltraify, senior software engineer at Ultracell Networks Ltd; Dr Sophie Carr, mathematician, Bays Consulting Ltd; Dr Aarathi Prasad, writer, broadcaster, and geneticist; Dr Anjana Khatwa, Earth scientist and presenter; Dr Antonia Pontiki, biomedical engineer at King’s College London; and Rosie Curran Crawley, presenter at L’Oreal Young Scientist Centre.
About The IET
The IET is one of the world’s leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET provides a global knowledge network to facilitate the exchange of ideas and promote the positive role of science, engineering and technology in the world.