Jahnavi Phalkey

Jahnavi Phalkey

PhD, History of Science and Technology, Founding Director, Science Gallery Bengaluru. Sir Asutosh Mukherjee Visiting Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies.

Jahnavi Phalkey was appointed Founding Director of Science Gallery Bengaluru in November 2018.  Previously Jahnavi held a tenured faculty position at King’s College London. She started her academic career at the University of Heidelberg, following which she was based at Georgia Tech-Lorraine, France, and Imperial College London. Jahnavi was Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin). She was also external curator to the Science Museum London, and has been a Scholar-in-Residence at the Deutsches Museum, Munich. Jahnavi is the author of Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth Century India.

Session

The Future of Medicine

Tech, AI & molecular research

In many ways, the future of diagnostics lies in technology, machine learning, molecular biology and cutting-edge R&D. According to  the Future Healthcare Journal, AI will be increasingly applied within healthcare , especially for the tasks of diagnosis and treatment recommendations, patient engagement and adherence, and administrative activities of the healthcare workforce. What does this mean for the treatment and prediction of future pandemics and for cutting edge research across medicine? Our diverse panel of experts seeks answers for you.