Dr shini somara biography of barack obama

British author, producer and media broadcaster

Shini Somara (born Shini Somarathne; July 30, ) is a British mechanical engineer, media broadcaster, producer and author. She has presented TechKnow on Al Jazeera America and reporting for various BBC shows including The Health Show.

She has also hosted two educational series of physics and engineering videos on the Crash CourseYouTube channel for PBS Digital Studios.

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She has been a presenter on BBC America, Sky Atlantic, BBC1, BBC2, and PBS.

Early life and education

Somara is the eldest of three daughters born to a Sri Lanka-born mechanical engineer and his Malaysian wife (both studied at South Bank University, formerly Borough Polytechnic Institute).^[1] Somara's father runs a mechanical engineering consultancy for building services.^[2]

Born and raised in London, Somara studied at Henrietta Barnett School,^[3] and began her mechanical engineering career at Brunel University London, completing a Bachelors of Engineering before moving on to an engineering doctorate (EngD), which she was awarded in for her doctoral thesis, Dynamic Thermal Modelling Using CFD.^[4] Her specialisation was in computational fluid dynamics, where computer simulations are used to visualise phenomena invisible to the naked eye, helping engineers to understand how fluids flow.^[5][6]

Somara has a published paper in the International Journal of Ventilation titled "Transient Solution Methods for Dynamic Thermal Modelling within CFD".^[7]

Career

Media

Somara's broadcasting career started in when she presented on the BBC's The Health Show, covering developments in global health.

Later the same year, she began hosting No Kitchen Required which aired in on BBC America. The show involved three professional chefs immersing themselves in alternative culture with tribes and attempting to cook using unfamiliar tribal methods. The first season included trips to Dominica, New Zealand, Thailand and Fiji.^[8]

In , Somara started working on the Al Jazeera America talk show TechKnow^[9] - a minute show about science and technology.

It outlines innovations in technology and science and how they are changing lives of people in America. The shows are recorded with a group of contributors with backgrounds in science and technology.

Biography of barack obama president: Crash Course Engineering: - x45 episode YouTube series hosted by Shini, on the various aspects of engineering. Authoring books: Shini has published 7 books for young people to date. Do you have thoughts and time to share a few of your ideas on this topic? CFD is a simulation tool used by mechanical engineers to visualise how gases and liquids behave.

Between and late , Somara worked on several BBC productions, including Tomorrow's Food,^[10]Battle of Jutland^[11] and Secrets of Orkney with Neil Oliver and Chris Packham,^[12] and for Sky Atlantic.^[13]

In early , she also started working with PBS Digital Studios on Crash Course Physics (an online educational resource explaining complicated theories in a simple way with intuitive visuals).

She extended her involvement with Crash Course in with a new series, Crash Course Engineering.^[14][15][16]

In , Somara was a reporter on scientific programme Razor on CGTN.^[17] In January , Somara was a regular commentator on Science Channel's Engineering Catastrophes.

STEM and other work

Somara made a speech to the United Nations on 10 February about women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).^[18][19][20]

On International Women in Engineering Day, June , Somara launched her first podcast called "Scilence",^[21] to provide a platform for women to speak anonymously about their experiences in STEM and what it is like to work in an industry dominated by males.

"Scilence" later developed into several more Science podcasts including "Innervation", "eSTEAMd" and "Innovators Making a Difference",^[22][23] as well as "Mission Responsible" which was co-created with Dr Simon Clark in ^[24]

Somara is a mentor at Imperial College London^[25] and is on the E&T Innovation Awards advisory board of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.^[26]

She has also written seven STEM books for young people including Engineers Making a difference, which was published by Imperial College and The Gatsby Foundation.^[21] In the book was shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize.^[27] She has written an engineering book for younger readers called An Engineer Like Me,^[28] the first in a series of four books (including A Scientist Like Me, A Coder Like Me and A Mathematician Like Me).^[29]

Awards

In she was recognised as one of the Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering.^[30]

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