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#19: Quantum Physicist & Ballerina Dr. Merritt Moore: Beauty & Brains, Plus AI & Outerspace

#19: Quantum Physicist & Ballerina Dr. Merritt Moore: Beauty & Brains, Plus AI & Outerspace

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Quantum Physicist & Ballerina Dr. Merritt Moore:
Beauty & Brains, Plus AI
& Outer-space

more places

What do you get when you mix ballet shoes with physics lab
coats? Quantum Ballerina Dr. Merrit splits her time between
scientific research and professional dancing and wants to be the
first person to perform ballet in space.

“Everyone can put in hard work for an hour but can you put
in hard work for days, months and years for hours, not knowing if
it’s going to work out?” Merritt graduated
from Harvard with cum laude honors in physics and obtained a PhD
in Quantum Optics from Oxford. As a professional ballet dancer,
she has danced with the Zurich Ballet, Boston Ballet, English
National Ballet and Norwegian National Ballet and more performing
things such as The Nutcracker and Swan Lake.

Recently, she was awarded a spot on Forbes 30 under 30 and
was one of the final 12 candidates chosen to compete to become an
astronaut in the BBC Two series, “Astronauts: Do you have what it
takes?” She was invited to be the featured
speaker at Forbes Women’s Summit in New York,
has also appeared a panelist for the U.S. Embassy at the ‘Women
in STEM’ panel in London.

Merritt works with a team of artists and researchers to
synthesize science and art into breathtaking stage performances.
She is famous for a romantic duet she performs with an industrial
robot, a topic which she began to research at Harvard’s ArtLab.
One of her interests is researching AI machine learning together
with dance.

Why did Merritt became a physicist and a ballerina and
ignore the people who told her she could not be both a scientist
and a dancer? How she handle rejection, why does she invite
critiques, and what are her plans for becoming an astronaut and
dancing in space?

You can learn more about Merritt and contact her on her website
physicsonpointe.com

Merritt’s Instagram
Merritt’s Twitter
Merritt’s YouTube channel

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