Audrey Bowden
Senior Fellow 2024–2025

Audrey Bowden is associate professor of biomedical engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee (US). Her research focuses on the development of light-based technologies to assess health, detect diseases, and monitor treatment. She is particularly passionate about developing technologies to improve healthcare access and raise the standard of care for people in rural and disadvantaged communities. Her work routinely involves transdisciplinary engagement with medical doctors, scientists, engineers, and sometimes even theater professionals.

Audrey received her PhD from Duke University (US), where she was a member of the University Scholars Program, an interdisciplinary and intergenerational community committee dedicated to learning about the world and each other. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard University (US) and launched her independent research career as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University (US). Her love for travel and food of all cultures connects to the year she spent in Singapore as an international fellow, where she taught computer science at Ngee Ann Polytechnique.