MIT: Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy

Aditi Verma is a PhD candidate in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering where she also earned her undergraduate degree. Her doctoral research focuses on the techno-organizational interactions of nuclear safety. Aditi has served as a teaching assistant for undergraduate, graduate and professional courses at the departments of Physics and Nuclear Engineering at MIT. She has also participated in MIT Science and Technology Initiative’s Global Teaching Lab programs in Germany and Italy. Aditi has held internships at Areva, the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, and at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy in Bangalore, India. She has been a Burchard Scholar and was twice awarded the Kelly Douglas Fellowship to pursue independent projects in the humanities alongside her summer internships in fields of nuclear engineering.