Olivia Walch

Dr. Olivia Walch is a researcher in the University of Michigan Department of Neurology and the CEO of Arcascope, a sleep and circadian rhythms technology start-up. Her research has been featured on CNN, NPR, and The Atlantic, among others. Outside of sleep research, she co-edited Political Geometry, a book on the mathematics of gerrymandering, and published comics with The Nib and Silver Sprocket. She is also the cartoonist of Imogen Quest, a webcomic which won her the “America’s Next Great Cartoonist” prize from the Washington Post.