Michelle Borkin

Physicist

Michelle Borkin is a PhD candidate in applied physics. She works with the Astronomical Medicine Project and interdisciplinary 3D visualization techniques.

Why you should listen

Michelle Borkin’s 3-D imaging work uses tools from astronomy to help doctors visualize patients’ hearts. In 2008, she began PhD work at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science. She is a 2009 TED Fellow, and has been granted a National Science Foundation research fellowship.

Michelle Borkin’s TED talk

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Michelle Borkin

Can astronomers help doctors?

Posted Jan 2012

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News

Online censorship, life on Mars and tiny robots: 20 TED Fellows give talks in Whistler

August 19, 2013

Our office might be closed for summer vacation, but the TED Fellows are hard at work at the very first TED Fellows Retreat, happening now in Whistler, British Columbia. Because the Fellows have proliferated since the program officially launched in 2009, many of these extraordinary thinkers have never had a chance to meet and conspire. And thus, the TED […]