Shini Somara Biography
Shini Somara is a mechanical engineer from the United Kingdom, as well as a media broadcaster, producer, and author. She has reported for many BBC programming, including The Health Show, and has presented TechKnow on Al Jazeera America.
How old is Shini Somara? – Age
She is 43 years old as of 30 July 2022. She was born in 1979 in London, United Kingdom.
Shini Somara Family – Education
Somara is the eldest of three girls born to a mechanical engineer from Sri Lanka and his wife (both of whom attended South Bank University, then Borough Polytechnic Institute). Somara’s father owns a mechanical engineering firm that specializes in building services.
Somara attended Henrietta Barnett School before beginning her mechanical engineering career at Brunel University London, where she earned a Bachelors of Engineering before progressing to an engineering doctorate (EngD) in 2003 for her doctoral thesis, Dynamic Thermal Modelling Using CFD.
Shini Somara Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $3.5 million.
Shini Somara STEM
On February 10, 2017, Somara spoke at the United Nations regarding women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). Somara started her first podcast, “Scilence,” on International Women in Engineering Day in June 2018, to provide a venue for women to talk anonymously about their experiences in STEM and what it’s like to work in an industry dominated by men. “Scilence” later evolved into “Innervation,” another podcast that addresses common difficulties that prevent many women from realizing their greatest potential.
Shini Somara Career
In 2011, Somara began her career as a broadcaster when she appeared as a presenter on the BBC’s The Health Show, where she covered developments in global health. She began hosting No Kitchen Required later that same year, which aired on BBC America in 2012. The show featured three professional chefs attempting to cook using unfamiliar tribal techniques while immersed in alternative culture with tribes. Trips to Fiji, New Zealand, Thailand, and Dominica were part of the first season.
Somara began working on the 30-minute science and technology talk show TechKnow, which airs on Al Jazeera America. It describes how developments in science and technology are altering American life. A group of contributors with science and technology backgrounds are used to record the shows.
Somara collaborated with Neil Oliver and Chris Packham on several BBC productions, including Tomorrow’s Food, Battle of Jutland, and Secrets of Orkney, from 2014 to the end of 2016. She also worked for Sky Atlantic.
She also began collaborating with PBS Digital Studios on the online educational resource Crash Course Physics, which explains complex theories in a clear and understandable way through visuals, at the beginning of 2016. In 2018, she added a new series called Crash Course Engineering to her involvement with Crash Course.
Somara worked as a reporter in 2020 for the scientific program Razor on CGTN. Somara was a regular commentator on Engineering Catastrophes on the Science Channel in January 2021. Somara serves as a mentor at Imperial College London and is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s advisory board for the E&T Innovation Awards.
In addition, she has written An Engineer Like Me, the first of four books in a series that also includes A Scientist Like Me, A Coder Like Me, and A Mathematician Like Me for younger readers.
