Sromana is a Developmental Biologist by training. She obtained her PhD in 2022 from Indiana University, Bloomington, which is also known as the mecca of fruitfly research. She is driven by the question how cells in our bodies interpret and respond to external stimuli and use her favorite model system fruitflies to find these answers! The visual system is the primary sense organ that connects us to the external world and influences how we perceive things around us. Currently, she is a Post-Doctoral scientist at New York University studying how visual maps are formed and preserved in the fly brain. She spends countless hours in the lab taking pictures of fly brains. When not in the lab, she loves photographing her everyday life around New York City.

She is also keen on science communication and advocating for female, underrespresentated scientists. This summer she co-organized Soapbox Science New York, the first New York city based chapter of Soapbox Science, a public outreach platform for promoting women scientists. Soapbox Science is a worldwide event that brings top women & non-binary people in STEMM to their soapboxes to talk science with the public on the streets. She has also been part of the Afterschool STEM Mentoring Program offered by The New York Academy of Sciences running science experiments with elementary school kids within New York City. In addition, she is an active member of the NYU Neuroscience Institute Postdoc Committee responsible for organizing career development and networking events for members of the neuroscience community.

She is excited about collaborating with visual artists to communicate her research on visual neuroscience to a broader audience!