SciArt
“Any creative expression where the intent of the artist is to convey an observable understanding of the physical universe."
Dr Eleonora Moratto is the founder of The SciBallet project.
2025 Delivered an outreach talk about fungal highways and microfluidics to the general public attending the “Weird Science” the Imperial late in February.
2025 SciBallet project explaining how to use ballet to communicate science. The performance took place at the Imperial late in February and was advertised on Imperial College social media
2024 Family outreach activities for education to mycology for the Imperial Fungal Science Network
2024 SciBallet project explaining how to use ballet to communicate science. The performance took place at the Great Exhibition Road Festival and was featured by BBC
2023 6-week internship in the Science communications team at Royal Botanical Gardens Kew
2023 Featured in the STEAM powered Podcast to discuss how storytelling is a common theme between ballet and science
2023 Finalist in the Dance your PhD competition
2023 Gave a talk about her experience as a woman in STEM at the Women in Science conference (Udine)
2022 Organized and led the activity of PhD students to teach children about protein production in plants during the Great Exhibition Road Festival.
2021 Featured in the Polymath Polycast to discuss polymathy and the relationship between art and science
2021 Presentation to First year BBSRC PhD cohort (SciArt: the joining of science and art)
2015 Presentation to final year students of Liceo Scientifico Giovanni Marinelli di Udine (Italy) regarding Mycorrhizal fungi and the work conducted during the 2015 internship at Kew Gardens.
Up in the shaded, tropical cloud forests of Mexico, local smallholders are carefully cultivating coffee beans in the face of threats to their future. Now, scientists and communities are uniting to find security for both people and planet.
With the world's menu shrinking, it takes a Kew PhD student with a culinary science background to reintroduce us to the future of food.