About
I make invisible things visible — cell biology, political accountability, community resources — by building tools that let people interact with data in a meaningful way.
I’m a visualization scientist and full-stack engineer with a Ph.D. in chemistry from UCSF, a fine art background, and ten years at the Allen Institute for Cell Science. My work spans research-grade scientific tools and civic technology, united by a conviction that good visualization empowers people to understand complex systems.
I trained as a chemist and a painter. That double background shapes how I approach every project: with the precision of the lab and the eye of the studio.

Experience
Senior Scientist
Allen Institute for Cell Science · Director: Graham Johnson
Lead Developer
Town Hall Project
Postdoctoral Scholar
UCSF · Johnson Lab, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Research Technician
Burnham Institute · Pellecchia Lab, Infectious & Inflammatory Disease
Education
PhD, Chemistry & Chemical Biology
University of California, San Francisco · Shokat Lab
BS Chemical Biology · BA Fine Art
University of California, Berkeley
Awards & fellowships
Mary Anne Koda-Kimble Seed Award for Innovation
UCSF
QB3 Research Fellowship
UCSF
Regents and Chancellors Scholarship
UC Berkeley
Selected publications
Integrated intracellular organization and its variations in human iPS cells
Nature, 2023
The Simularium Viewer: an interactive online tool for sharing spatiotemporal biological models
Nature Methods, 2022
A Crosslinker Based on a Tethered Electrophile for Mapping Kinase-Substrate Networks
Chemistry & Biology, 2014 (cover article)
Toolkit
TypeScriptReactthree.jsWebGLD3PythonMapboxRCinema 4DUCSF ChimeraOil paintIllustration
Focus areas
Scientific VisualizationResearchCivic TechFine Art