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Olga Romanova

Election Year: 2019

Election Constituency: Global

Scholar Status: Scholar Alum

Rhodes Identifier: Russia & St John's 2019

Olga Romanova

Biography

Olga Romanova is a senior at Harvard College where she studies Bioengineering. She is Russian but was born and raised in Japan. In her current thesis project, she is developing a skin temperature correlation model, which will be incorporated in a wearable device for pediatric cancer patients. Ouside of the classroom, Olga leads The Harvard LowKeys, an a cappella group on Harvard's campus, and has won outstanding arrangement awards at the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella. Olga represented Japan at four World Championships with a National Synchronized Skating Team and was a U.S. Collegiate Synchronized Skating bronze medalist. She hopes to bring together the fields of bioengineering and global health / social policy through her studies at Oxford.