International recognition
We are proud to see our researcher Monica Patrascu featured in IEEE Women in Engineering Magazine! This article tells the personal story of Monica's journey into research (and art).
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Read the article: Dr. Monica Patrascu: The Whole Story (external link)
Monica has, in fact, a life in the arts as well as in research, and the article describes both.
"This is a piece on my path through science, engineering, death and dying, fantasy and science fiction," Monica says. "Spurred by a talk on digital necromancy in Glasgow where I used fiction as models, this is the first piece in which my worlds are brought together."
As a nonbinary person, the article has yet another important dimension for Monica. "This article is for me a step forward to visibility," they explain. "The Women in Engineering magazine's section says 'women to watch', and that's viscerally adequate. Even though I am not one, the tech academic community has been perceiving and treating me like a woman, with all the inequities and indignities."
At SEFAS, we get to use Monica's unique imagination, ingenuity, and systems engineering skills to combine medicine and digital innovation into a real difference for elderly care and society. Monica works across all our projects, being the main technology designer, focusing on developing digital biomarkers for symptom tracking in real-world everyday life for older adults, persons with dementia including the end of life, and Parkinson’s disease.