Choukri Mekkaoui

Jul 18

For our It’s Only Human show, Choukri created an original, large-scale, interactive brain using light sensory technology for participants to explore.

His creative works are developed based on the technology he uses in his research, blending the worlds of art, science, and technology to look at the human body in new ways.

Choukri Mekkaoui currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and is a world-renowned expert in cardiac diffusion imaging. Classically trained in France as a physicist and mathematician, Choukri approaches his work in healthcare through the lens of a physicist. His multidisciplinary expertise led to significant breakthroughs in medical imaging methods and technologies including multimodality imaging and diffusion. These are developments that will help us understand chronic diseases and detect them early enough to save lives. He has also explore the intersection of art, science, and technology, and was awarded the" “best image" at SCMR2015 for his piece, "The Heart of Renoir's Little Girl with a Spray of Flowers", which he generated by applying diffusion MRI tractography to a human heart and depicting its fiber architecture using the color schemes in Pierre-Auguste Renoir's celebrated painting. — via nmr.mgh.harvard.edu & tedxbeaconstreet.com