Hi! I'm Natalia, an artist-astronomer working towards my PhD in astronomy and my MFA in Studio Art: Art + Technology at the University of Florida.
My astronomy research is on the orbits and rotation of extrasolar planets and the impact of a day-night cycle on a planet's capacity to sustain life. Prior to my graduate work at UF, I worked at MIT on NASA's TESS Mission.
My work and lived experience as an astronomer inform my artistic practice which is centered in text and performance. My creative scientific process as an artist-astronomy is intuitive, embodied, and fundamental to my identity. Explore my my portfolio of art + astronomy here
I am also passionate about communicating science and exploring it in new ways. Here's a playlist of my recorded public and academic talks
[see the latest on my Instagram]
5/2/24 Workshop performance of new dance+theatrical work, Story of a Photon, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
6/6-9/24 Respiration Meditation Wonder Symposium at the Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
4/3-5/24 Participated as an astrobiologist and theatre-maker in the Being Stardust workshop with sophomore high school students from the Baltimore School for the Arts, hosted at the Library of Congress Kluge Center and facilitated by Jacob Berkowitz, the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology.
3/30/24 Moderator for conversation with Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art at the Women in the Arts Expo 2024 at the Orlando Public Library.
3/29/24 Invited seminar talk, Plausibility of Capture into High-Obliquity States for Exoplanets in the M Dwarf Habitable Zone, University of Kansas Astro Seminar (virtual)