Dr. Tolga Durak

The Safety, Health, Environmental Discovery Lab (SHED) serves as a multidisciplinary laboratory dedicated to prototyping, fabrication, and scientific discovery at MIT, offering equitable access to advanced technologies for the broader community. By integrating an interdisciplinary framework with domain-specific expertise, the SHED accelerates the progression of education, foundational and applied research, and systematic adoption of emerging technologies while ensuring scientific advancement is both rapid and conducted with the highest standards of safety and efficacy.

The SHED proactively integrates research, applied problem-solving and core Environment, Health and Safety expertise to develop knowledge and processes that accelerate safe and broad access to advanced technologies that empower members of the MIT community in furtherance of the Institution’s mission.