Nayani Jensen

Nayani Jensen is a PhD student at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, where she studies the rise of empirical approaches to weather and climate in the early 19th Century. She initially trained as a Mechanical Engineer and worked on climate research projects, before receiving a Rhodes Scholarship and going on to study English Literature (BA) and History of Science (MSc) at the University of Oxford. She is also a writer, and her short fiction and poetry have appeared in publications including Nature and The New Quarterly. She received the 2024 RBC Bronwen Wallace award for Emerging Writers from the Writers’ Trust of Canada, and is currently working on a collection of short fiction about historical science. In both her academic and creative work, she is interested in merging arts and sciences in interdisciplinary approaches to history, climate, and fiction. She is a C. David Naylor Scholar, a JHI Junior Fellow, and Massey Junior Fellow.