CELINE JOY

STEM MEDIA, VISUALIZATION, & COMMUNICATIONS

ABOUT

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Education

Certificate

Designing Effective Science Communication | University of Colorado Boulder | 2025

STEM Media & Communications

Research & Clinical Experience

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

Undergraduate Researcher, Mammalian Cell Culture | Suffolk University | 2020

Teaching & Public Engagement

Workshop

Skills

Visual:
Scientific Illustration
Visual Communication
Graphic Design
3D Modelling
Infographics
Creative Direction

Science Communications:
Grant Support
Narrative Development
Value Propositions
Teaching

Other:
Creative and Visual Strategy Decks
Brand Design and Strategy
Content Development

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

2025

Visualizing 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
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 cancer diagnoses and related treatments without causing further fear.

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

Prototype: A “Scrollytelling” 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

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.