Scientific Illustration Expertise - Over 20 years of experience consulting and collaborating with scientists to develop illustrations and animations of scientific concepts for publications and presentations

Collaborative Communication - Focused on creating visual representations of complex scientific concepts for presentations, publications, and posters

Graphics Management - 15 years of experience managing graphics for a world-leading research institute providing a wide range of services for over 300 employees

Professional Experience

Freelance Scientific Illustrator, Wayland, MA                                                                                                     2016- Present

§  Create sophisticated illustrations for over 30 universities, start-ups, established companies, and journals including contract illustrator for AACR’s Cancer Immunology Research.

§  Create cover art and illustrations for researchers at Koch Institute, Broad Institute, Whitehead Institute, Harvard Medical School, and MIT Department of Biochemical Engineering and many more.

§  Invited to teach Adobe Illustrator to biotech companies and academic institutions.

Scientific Illustrator |Caris Life Sciences, Dallas, TX                                                                                          2022 – 2023

§  Collaborated with scientists and writers to edit and create scientific concepts visually via illustration for oncological publications.

Senior Graphic Support Specialist | Whitehead Institute - MIT, Cambridge, MA                                     2002 – 2016

§  Collaborated with over 50 scientists to convey scientific concepts visually via illustration and animation for publications, presentations, and posters targeting both general and professional audiences.

§  Designed visual identity and marketing materials to promote the Institute, including developing logos, t-shirts, and posters in partnership with the public affairs office.

§  Created complex scientific animations in PowerPoint and Maya and developed graphics for websites.

§  Produced hundreds of posters and illustrations for journal articles, including cover art for Nature.

§  Taught MIT professors Adobe graphics programs, including PowerPoint, Adobe Illustrator, and Photoshop.

Additional Projects

Multimedia Exhibit Contributor: Museum of Natural History, Los Angeles, CA | Museum of Science, Boston, MA (3 Exhibits) | USS Constitution Museum, Boston, MA

Cartoonist And Photographer: Jamaica Plain Gazette, Jamaica Plain, MA |Town Crier, Weston, and Wayland, MA | Middlesex News, Framingham, MA

       Education & Training

Scientific and Technical Illustration Coursework | Rhode Island School of Design | Providence, RI

Bachelor of Science in Biology | Boston College | Chestnut Hill, MA