Publications

2016

Journal, Printing Industry. “Key Words : 3D Printed Data, Dark Matter, Cosmologically-Inspired Engineering, Materials Cosmology, Noncommutative Geometry.” http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/01/28/spatial-architect-creates-first-3d-printed-models-of-dark-matter-other-unseeable-phenomena-part-1/. N.p., 2016.

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/01/28/spatial-architect-creates-firs…

As an undergraduate at Princeton University, de Riordan coined the terms “seeablesTM”, “see-ablesTM”, and “Materials CosmologyTM”, before exploring the idea in more depth as a PhD student at ENS. Advised by Dan Garber of Princeton’s Departments of Philosophy, Politics, and History of Science, and Alain Connes of the College de France, her dissertation uses lateral thinking to look at difficult scientific phenomena in intersection with the humanities. Launching a field she calls “cosmologically-inspired engineering”, de Riordan is pursuing academic research to make difficult scientific phenomena accessible to a wider audience. In her trans-disciplinary doctoral program, she was a borsista in computational cosmology at Scuola Normale Supériore in Pisa, Italy (SNS), a visiting researcher at Princeton University in Philosophy, and began to make her see-ables a reality while a Visiting Fellow in Physics in the Spring of 2015 at Harvard University.

3D printing otherwise unobservable phenomena, such as dark matter, is no easy task, which is why Christine-Angel sought advice from expert scientists and mathematicians, which include Tracy Slatyer, Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT, Senior Research Scientist of the Wyss Institute at Harvard University; James Weaver; Federico Marinacci of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research; and Mark Vogelsberger, Assistant Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at MIT, among many others.