Sandy Rieger is a cognitive neuroscientist, multi-instrumentalist musician and anti-disciplinary doctoral researcher at the MIT Media Lab. Her work with the MIT Aging Brain Initiative explores the intersections of human gamma applications and dynamic multisensory cognition. Before receiving a master’s degree at MIT, she received a master’s degree in Neuroscience, Synesthesia Research and Cross-Modal Sound Studies at Dartmouth College, received her Bachelor’s at Stanford University and is an Oxford University Bing Alumna. As a honorary United Nations youth ambassador, her sonic performances and social service work throughout the world (ranging from poverty alleviation, clinical music therapy to youth literacy initiatives) and myriad academic experiences, have informed some of the larger questions in her work. She is passionate about promoting neurodiversity and improving upon the human experience by creating pathways between the fields of neuroscience, music, technology and multisensory studies. Through this, she seeks to develop and deploy sustainable solutions, assistive technologies and innovations for cognitive pathologies like Alzheimer’s and other challenges facing our communities and world.