page_title: Felice Frankel
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Felice Frankel / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: A 3-cm drop of ferrofluid on a glass slide. A slip of yellow paper sits below the slide and a set of seven small circular magnets under the paper affects the form of the drop.
context_page_description: Felice Frankel is a photographer of scientific images who has received multiple awards, both for the aesthetic quality of her science photographs and for her ability to effectively communicate complex scientific information in images.
context_section_description: As of 2019, Felice Frankel is a research scientist in the Department of Chemical Engineering at MIT with support from Mechanical Engineering. She has also been a senior research fellow in the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Medical School Department of Systems Biology.
  Her most recent book, Picturing Science and Engineering (MIT Press, 2018) is based on her edX course, “Making Science and Engineering Pictures, A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work (0.111x)”.
  Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel's images have been published in a number of professional journal articles, magazine covers, and various other international publications for general audiences such as National Geographic, Nature, Science, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, and New Scientist, among others.  In 2003–2007 she contributed a series of columns, Sightings, in American Scientist addressing the power of imaging science.
  Frankel and her work have been profiled in The New York Times, Wired, Life Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Science Friday, The Christian Science Monitor, and various European publications. Her limited-edition photographs are included in a number of corporate and private collections, and were part of MOMA’s 2008 exhibition, Design and the Elastic Mind. Her work was featured in the 2016 MIT Museum exhibition Images of Discovery: Communicating Science through Photography. 
  Frankel founded the "Image and Meaning" workshops and conferences to develop new approaches for promoting the public understanding of science through visual expression. She also was principal investigator of the National Science Foundation-funded program "Picturing to Learn", an effort to study how making representations aids students in teaching and learning.
caption: Frankel's photo of ferrofluid (2002)
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