Once in a while, I have opportunities that are incredible injections of positivity for my professional path. My visit to Lund last week was one of those.

The first keynote of my career, my first public discussion on AI, a new workshop format, and just pure happiness.

Image © Carolina Buizza

The largest organismal biology conference in Switzerland is happening in February at the University of Lausanne!

I had the pleasure of working with the organizing committee to design the event’s visual identity.

If the topic sparks your interest, make sure to submit your abstract by November 15th!

Excited to share a new [colorful] project!

Had the pleasure to design and illustrate a visual summary exploring some of the genetic secrets behind the red and yellow colors of parrots.

🔗 Read the paper in Science Magazine here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New editorial work for ETH Zürich!

Had the pleasure to work with Sohyon Lee and Berend Snijder to illustrate their most recent findings just published in Nature Medicine.

The illustrated digest from ETH News: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...
The paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New cover illustration for Nature Aging! 🕒

Read the study on a specific type of fat that accumulates as tissue ages, and how this accumulation can be reversed through exercise here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Congratulations to everyone involved!

Close-ups of some of the projects I've been working on: websites, data visualizations and a few editorial illustrations.
Turning science into informative and engaging visuals. Stay tuned for more! 🌈

New figure design work on gut microbiota variation in animals!

Read the review here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

One of my favorite projects from last year, in collaboration with Elena Martino from Università di Padova. Thank you for the trust!

New editorial work on fertilization and the structural wonders of the egg coat!

news.ki.se/new-discover...

Thank you to Karolinska KI for featuring this piece, and to Luca Jovine for trusting me with this work!

New editorial work on engineering the algae of the future. 🧬

I was commissioned to illustrate a review paper exploring the past, present and future of algal genome engineering. Read it here: www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

Huge thanks to Kyle J. Lauersen for the trust!

Bits and pieces of some of my most recent scientific figure design projects, applied to publications, grants and presentations. 🌈

New figure work depicting one of the ways nature uses to make the color blue! 🔵

My job was to visualize the differences in the skin structure between blue areas and non-blue areas of blue-spotted rays.

Read about it here: lnkd.in/gPmxfKtn

Huge thanks to Amar and Mason for this opportunity!

New work of the role of muscles and adipose tissue in metabolism!

This project was not self-initiated but is personal. In my client’s words, it illustrates their “scientific personality”. The result is a mash-up of some key players in thermogenesis in mammals.

Huge thanks to Rachel and Daniel!

2023 in review! ✨

Thanks to everyone who supports me to keep creating and doing a job I love. Off to start year 5 of producing visuals for science communication and I can’t wait to see what 2024 will bring!

Have a project in mind for 2024?
Find out how we can collaborate here joanaccarvalho.com

Steadily grinding through the last projects of 2023!
Sneak peek of today's subject 🐭

New project out! 🧠

Had the pleasure to collaborate with @gilcosta.bsky.social to create six branded illustrations for the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour.

We wrote all about our process here: medium.com/@joanagccarv...

Huge thanks to Gil and everyone involved!

Fragments of some of my recent projects, done in collaboration with researchers from four different corners of the globe. 🌍

New work on the neutrophils that migrate to cancers in the brain. 🧠

The paper: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
And a simpler language story: www.thedailyscience.org/new-study-un...

This was a wonderful project to work on! Many thanks to @johannajoyce.bsky.social and Roeltje Maas for the trust.

New entry to my alphabet series.

I is for Immune cells.
Ink and graphite on paper.

A little piece of something I've been working on.