Scholar Conversation · Neuroscience
“The interesting cases are never the obvious ones”
Dr. Aditi Sharma on eighteen months of data curation, the validation flaw she nearly committed, and why the prospective studies matter more than the papers.
Dr. Aditi Sharma holds a joint appointment between the Department of Engineering and a clinical neuroscience unit at Cambridge, where she works on longitudinal modelling of neurodegenerative change. She spoke to us about the doctoral years, the reassessment that unsettled a portion of her subfield, and the slow work now occupying her laboratory.
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