Kalliopi Monoyios

Past President

Kalliopi Monoyios is an artist working to mature the conversation around plastic and plastic pollution. She has a degree in geology from Princeton University. Her illustrations have appeared inside and on the covers of top peer-review journals as well as in three New York Times best-selling popular non-fiction books, including Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin. From 2011-2016, she co-founded and co-wrote Symbiartic, a blog on the intersection of science and art for Scientific American. Now, driven by the conviction that science communicators operating in all spheres are a critical part of creating a scientifically literate public, she is developing new avenues of public engagement with science via her own art and curated exhibits on plastic and American consumerism.

Kalliopi joined the GNSI in 2002. She served on the Education Fund Committee for 9 years, contributed to many annual conferences in various roles, and was the Guild’s first Social Media Coordinator. In 2018 she was honored with GNSI’s Special Projects Award for these contributions. 

In her estimation, volunteer hours spent with the GNSI are hours invested in the health and success of the field of visual science communication and all who practice it.