CELINE JOY 

STEM MEDIA, VISUALIZATION, & COMMUNICATIONS




CV 


Education
 MSc Medical Visualisation & Human Anatomy | The Glasgow School of Art & The University of Glasgow | 2026 - 2027 (present)

MA Design, Knowledge Visualization in Biomedical Communications | Zürich University of the Arts | 2023 - 2024 

BS Biology, Minor Psychology | Suffolk University | 2016 - 2020 Certificate
 Designing Effective Science Communication | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025


STEM Media & Communications  Creative Director | MIT Science Policy Review | 2026

Science Content Developer | SciQuiry | 2025 - 2026  

Designer in STEM Media & Communications | Freelance & Pro Bono | 2024 - 2026 

Graduate Researcher & Designer, Research in Visual Biomedical Communications |  Zürich University of the Arts | 2023 - 2024  


Research & Clinical Experience  Scientist, Clinical Diagonostics | Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard | 2020 - 2022

Undergraduate Researcher, Mammalian Cell Culture | Suffolk University | 2020


Teaching & Public Outreach Statewide Scientific Review Committee | Massachusetts Science & Engineering Fair | 2025 - 2026 

Global Side Mentor & Educator, Scientific Illustration | HLAB | 2024 

Teaching Assistant, Math & Reading | Jumpstart | 2016

Teaching Assistant, STEM & Reading | NMH Outreach | 2014 - 2016


Workshop Art in Science | HLAB | Miyagi-Onagawa, Japan | 2024

Visual Communication in Patient Education | ZHdK | Zürich, Switzerland | 2023


Skills 
Software & Programming:
Blender
Adobe - PS, ID, LR
Affinity 
Figma
Unity (learning in progress)
C# (learning in progress)
3DS Max (learning in progress)
ZBrush (learning in progress)
3D Slicer (learning in progress)

Visual:
Scientific Illustration
Graphic Design 
3D Modelling 
Infographics 
Creative Direction 
Creative and Visual Strategy Decks


Science Communications:
Grant Support 
Narrative Development 
Value Propositions
Teaching & Public Outreach







Last Updated September 2026

SELECTED PROJECTS 






Volume VII: The Science of Geopolitics

MIT Science Policy Review 

2026 Creative direction and visual strategy for MIT SPR Volume VII: The Science of Geopolitics - How Science is Outpacing Policy in a Rapidly Changing World.

Cover and thumbnail designs for web publication. Illustrated and modeled in Blender 3D.

https://sciencepolicyreview.org/volume-vii-august-2026/







Bioxel 

Personal 

2025Visualizing open-source medical datasets using Bioxel in Blender 4.3.

Bioxel Nodes: https://omoolab.github.io/BioxelNodes/latest/

EMDB Database: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/emdb/

The Visible Human Project: NIH National Library of Medicine




Changing Cancer Perceptions 

ZHdK Master’s Thesis, Knowledge Visualization
Dermatologische Klinik, Universitätsspital Zürich

2024  Master’s thesis work that examines the use and perceptual impact of aesthetics in cancer visualization. Offering alternative ways to present cancer to encourage learning and communication of diagnoses and related treatments without causing further fear.

This project was done in cooperation with the Dermatologische Klinik, Universitätsspital Zürich.

Prototype: A “Scrollytelling” website page was created to break down the cooperation partner’s multi-drug therapy for metastasizing melanoma to make complex biomedical information more accessible to broader audiences and cancer patients.





Visualizing Cancer 

ZHdK Master’s Thesis, Knowledge Visualization

2023  Defining aesthetic design principles in biomedical visualization through image analysis research, interviews with biomedical designers, and design experimentation in 3D programs.

Two aesthetic styles that could be used to communicate cancer knowledge to broader audiences were defined: abstract vs. realistic.







Wundertüte

ZHdK
UZH Irchel 

2023 Luckybag - Visualizing computerized tomography (CT) scans of various odd specimens including but not limited to seashells, garlic, a banana, fig, cactus, Kinder egg, lighter, and Ferrero Rocher.





Pogona Vitticeps 

Personal 

2020 Traditional scientific illustration of the bearded dragon, Pogona vitticeps. 


WORKSHOP





Art in Science

HLAB
Miyagi-Onagawa, Japan 

2024

*Image from HLAB 
A seminar designed to teach the importance of scientific illustration in communicating knowledge to broader audiences. Students learned various examples of scientific illustrations, including medical, botanical, zoological, and environmental topics.

The workshop focused on “the art of looking,” where students closely examined scientific illustrations. Students put this skill into practice through observational sketching exercises of plant life in the surrounding environment of Miyagi-Onagawa, Japan. 




Visual Communication in Patient Education 

ZHdK
Zürich, Switzerland

2023  

A workshop created to exchange ideas between design and science experts on effective visual communication in patient education.

This workshop included interactive discussions, in a “debate” style, designed to encourage discourse on how cancer-related topics, such as therapy, should be presented to patients.

Participants were split into two groups and were tasked with defending the use of either calm or ominous aesthetics in the visual communication of cancer. The dialogue of this workshop was used to supplement the thesis: Changing Cancer Perceptions. 


OTHER 



Passion Projects 

Since 2023  Academic and self-initiated personal work for fun, practice, and learning across biology, medicine, and zoology in 2D, 3D, and motion graphics. 





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