Visual Communication in Science

You will learn to effectively communicate your own scientific ideas and results by applying best visual communication practices to your research communication. You will understand the principles and useful design approaches used by experts. You will get actionable advice and feedback on your own pre-submitted materials. This online workshop is an immersive training, structured, easy to follow, memorable, useful, and fun.

Content:

• Communicating with scientific vs non-scientific audiences
• Visual perception and what humans find intuitive
• Visual organization: simplifying comprehension through structured layout
• Eye-flow: effortlessly guide the audience through the design
• Colors: how to amplify, not ‘fancify’
• Discussion on pre-submitted figures: facilitator’s feedback on a selection of pre-submitted figures from participants
• Drawing exercise & group work: participants draw a graphical abstract of their research and give each other feedback on how to improve

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This course will be conducted online. 

Technical requirements: Access to internet, laptop, camera, microphone, zoom (potentially). 

Your email address will be forwarded to the trainer for organizational reasons.

About the trainer:

Dr. Jernej Zupanc, Founder of Seyens Ltd: My goal is to help researchers communicate more effectively. Drawing from design, art, movies, technology, psychology, and management, I am always looking for new approaches that are easy to apply in science. I then distil them into practical workshops that are structured and easy to understand, memorable, relevant, useful and a fun learning experience. They are also efficient so that the researchers can learn and apply the principles in the shortest possible time. I have worked with more than 3500 researchers in 20 countries and regularly run training events at excellent research institutions and participate as a keynote speaker at conferences. In addition to training, I constantly practice what I teach. I consult companies on European grants, having helped over 20 clients receive over €25 million in public and private funding. Before Seyens, I worked at a startup as Head of Computer Vision and as an Evaluator of Horizon 2020 projects. I did my doctorate and was a postdoc in computer science at University of Ljubljana and a Fulbright Scholar at the Northeastern University, Boston.