Hello there, welcome to my corner of the web!
I am Arushi Garg. I love taking complex systems apart, finding what isn't working, and rebuilding. And I love communicating and explaining things simply.
Work
I have donned many hats professionally - researcher, software engineer, facilitator, educator, trainer. I combine technical depth — electrical engineering, three years of commercial software development, statistical modelling in R and MATLAB — with research expertise in how people think, behave, change, and use language. I built that range across academia and industry in India, Germany, and the Netherlands, moving from engineering into cognitive science and then the neuroscience of language, with two publications. I explain the results to specialists and non-specialists alike.
I'm now bringing all of my training, experience, and skills into industry, and I'd welcome conversations about where it could be useful.
This site presents a few snapshots of my past work, and is definitely not exhaustive. Take a look at my workshop on best coding practices in R that I have taught seven times in three countries. In this workshop I interpreted how commercial code quality standards can be applied to academia and brought such standards to academics who needed them. You could also head to The Lemma Project, a poem I wrote to explain my PhD research in three minutes. The Communication & University Teaching pages catalog the breadth of my communication and teaching experience.
Life
I have built myself a small beautiful family, and live together with my partner and son in Eindhoven. I lived in Nijmegen for 9 years before this.
Parenthood has completely transformed my perspective of this world and has opened me to the wonder and beauty of our lives. It has also made me appreciate the fleeting quality of time and made me more efficient and focused than before. Parenthood teaches you to prioritise like nothing else.
Sustainability, mental health, and feminism are the big challenges of our times that I am driven by. This is visible in the work I have done professionally as well as how we live our lives and parent personally.
Contact
If you would like to know more about me, please head to the other sections of my website.
If you would like to connect to me, head on over to the contact page and feel free to leave a message or connect to me through socials.