ᨓ Sci-Comm Teaching
"Art and Science: Theory and Practice" | 2-hour workshop | Université de Genève
The practice of art-based science and technology communication – with scientists and communicators.
Hosted by the "Listen, Engage, Connect: Explore The Science Communication Arena", 2025 edition. Link
"Living Science" | 2 x 5-hour workshops | Cambridge Postdoc Academy
Public outreach for scientists: performing, presenting, devising.
"The Culture Lab": Lent | 8 x 1.5-hour sessions | Cambridge University
Exploring and improving local research culture - with postdocs.
– Hosted by Prof. Bénédicte Sanson at the PDN Department. Link
"The Culture Lab": Michaelmas | 4 x 1.5-hour sessions | Cambridge University
Exploring and improving local research culture - with postdocs.
– Hosted by Prof. Bénédicte Sanson at the PDN Department. Link
"Creativity as Practice" | 3-hour session | Paris
Exploring creativity - with graduates of cognitive science, philosophy and history of art.
– Hosted by Prof-s Margherita Arcangeli and Jerôme Dokiç, Institut Jean Nicod (ENS).
"Storytelling in Science Communication" | 2-hour workshop | Schwarzsee
Theory and practice of science-centred story-telling – with biomed doctoral researchers.
– Hosted by the SciMed PhD Retreat in Schwarzsee, Switzerland. Link
"Science and Art: Theory and Practice" | 2-hour workshop | Genève
Theory and practice of art-based sci-comm – with scientists and communicators.
– Hosted by Université de Genève at the Summer School in Science Communication. Link
"TheStoryLab: Sciences' Humanistic Side" | 2-hour workshop | London
Creative exploration of humanistic aspects of academic and scientific research with sociologists, physicists and economists – with historians, sociologists, physicists and economists.
– Hosted by the UCL STS Department and Faculty of Education.
"StoryLab: Sciences' Humanistic Side" | Cambridge
Creative exploration of humanistic aspects of academic and scientific research – with bioinformaticians, environmental biologists and sociologists.
– Hosted at the Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
"Science, Scientists and Their Emotions" | 3 x 1-hour sessions | Valencia
Philosophical perspective on the role of emotions in scientific research – with multidisciplinary students and researchers.
– Hosted by the Society for Multidisciplinary and Fundamental Research summer school. Link
ᯓ★ Theatre and Outreach Productions
"How I Fell in Love with Science" | Performance | UNIGE ScienceScope
A performance produced with the students of the "Listen, Engage, Connect: Explore The Science Communication Arena" Summer School at the Université de Genève, 2025 edition.
"Living Science" | Performance | Cambridge Festival 2025
A public engagement show devised by the PDN postdoctoral researchers during the "Living Science" workshops. Link
"Strangers" | Lighting Designer and Operator | Corpus Playroom
A play about Alzheimer's disease
Written by Gabriella Jerran. Dir. by Rachel Byrne.
"That Terrible Light" | Director | Baron's Court Theatre
Written by Phillip Marriot.
At the Sunday Fix, an evening of new writing.
"Boil, Pour, Stirr" | Writer and Director| Corpus Playroom
At the Smörgåsbord (Fletcher Players), an evening of new writing.
"Into the Wilderness" | Co-Writer and Director | Pembroke New Cellars
The 24-Hour Sketch Show (Pembrook Players), a show written and rehearsed in 24 hours.
"Bathwater" | Director | Winstanley Lecture Theatre
Written by Sam Misan.
Dryden Society Scratch Night.
"Disappearing by the Books" | Writer and Director | Corpus Playroom
At the HATCH (The Marlowe Society), an evening of new writing.
“The Island Dweller" | Script & Research Consultant |
Climate documentary film dir. Matt D'Henin (Europe Film Festival Winner 2021)
✎ ̼ Research and Writings
"Feyerabend's Humanistic Theatre of Science" | Philosophy and Sci-Comm
Forthcoming in the Theatre about Science: Performing and Communicating, University of Coimbra Press
"Experimental Philosophy of Science" | Philosophy
Forthcoming in the Methods in Philosophy of Science, MIT Press
"Scientific Experimental Articles are Modernist Stories" | Philosophy
In the European Journal for Philosophy of Science
"Moving Targets and Models of Nothing:" | with M. Stuart | Philosophy
In the Abstraction in Science and Art: Philosophical Perspectives, Routledge
"Emotions in Scientific Practice" | Philosophy
In the Interdisciplinary Sciences Review
"Scientific Experiments Beyond Surprise and Beauty" | X-Philosophy
In the European Journal for Philosophy of Science
"On writing prompts" | Causal Philosophy
In the Junkyard of the Mind
"Pretence and Mental Imagery" | Causal Philosophy
In the Junkyard of the Mind
"The importance of storytelling in science education" | Education
On the Kolabtree Blog
"Coronaviruses: Contagious Beasts and Where to Find Them" | Sci-Comm
In The Science Breaker
"On Where Altruistic Behaviour Sits in Our Brain" | Sci-Comm
In The Science Breaker
"Exploring the Neocortex Development" | Sci-Comm
In The Science Breaker
"Following the Traces of Fermentation” | Sci-Comm
In The Science Breaker
"Nitric Oxide Mediates Neuro-Glial Interaction | with Koch and Nagoshi | Science
In the PLOS Genetics
"Decoding Drosophila Circadian Pacemaker Circuit" | with Nagoshi | Science
In the Current Opinion in Insect Science
"A Screening of UNF Targets Identifies Rnb" | et al. | Science
In The Journal of Neuroscience
𓀕 Appearances
2025
"Serious fun: philosophy, science, and creative practices" (with Scott-Fordsmand) – performative presentation, STS Research Day, University College London
2024
"Scientific Representations – a Quest for Style", BSPS 2024, York
"Science Communication: Between Realism, Empiricism, and Art", SciComm South West, UWE Bristol
"Fruit Fly in the Lab: Not Quite a Fly, nor is a Human", Symposium "Model Organisms: Materiality, History and Politics", ICI Berlin
"Aesthetic emotions and ‘aesthetic’ practices: Unpacking the Dynamic Model of Aesthetic Experience", Workshop "Perspectives on Aesthetic Emotions", Barcelona
2023
"Scientific Representations: Between Style and Fashion", STS Research Day, University College London
2022
"Scientific Articles are Modernist Stories ", The Epistemic Role of Narratives in Science Workshop, Zürich
"Mapping Emotions in Scientific Experimental Practice ", East European Network for Philosophy of Science, Tartu
"Scientific Experiments Beyond Surprise and Beauty", poster, The Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, Ghent, Belgium
"Emotions in Scientific Experimental Research", European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Graz
2021
Philosophy and Science Symposium at the Section of Biology (organiser and participant)
"Scientific Articles are Modernist Stories", The 8th Congress of the Society for the Philosophy of Science, Mons
"What One Discovers Pretending to be a Molecule", Geneva Aesthetics of Science Workshop (organiser and participant), University of Geneva
2018
"Drosophila NOS Mutants Have Arrhythmic Circadian Behaviour", Swiss Drosophila Meeting, University of Fribourg
2017
"Rnb, a novel regulator of Drosophila Circadian Rhythms" (poster), Swiss Drosophila Meeting, ETH Zurich