Selene Sarı

Selene Sarı is an aerodynamicist and design engineer who founded Vox Aeris, a company developing air purification that works through sound rather than denser filter media. She studied aerospace engineering at UCLA and worked as an automotive aerodynamic engineer in the electric vehicle industry before the Innovation Design Engineering MA/MSc run jointly by the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London.

Vox Aeris grew from her interest in the invisible behaviour of air: the device combines a speaker and a purifier, using low-frequency sound and fan-driven turbulence to make particulate matter cluster before it is caught in a recyclable filter, an approach aimed at the energy cost that dominates a filter’s lifetime. She is a member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and a Royal Academy of Engineering Global Talent.