Presenter

Dr. Gaël McGill is faculty and Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School where his teaching and research focuses on visualization design. Dr. McGill is also founder & CEO of Digizyme, Inc. a firm dedicated to the visualization and communication of science. He co-authored with E.O. Wilson Apple’s flagship digital iBooks textbook E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth, and has created multiple resources for the scientific visualization community, including Clarafi.com and Molecular Maya. Dr. McGill is currently co-authoring several biology textbooks, writes on issues of biodiversity loss and sustainable engineering as part of his work with the United Nations, and is a board member of the Institute for Planetary Thinking. He completed his B.A. summa cum laude in Biology, Music, and Art History from Swarthmore College, and Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School as a Howard Hughes Medical fellow.