Bandes dessinées
Perte d'orientation
ARTISTE
INGO SCHANDELER
Ingo Schandeler (born 1958) has always had a drawing pen at the ready in any stage of his life. Whether drawing mind maps while listening to a talk, at boring meetings to relax, in school to pin down the most important parts, or at cultural and sports events, in order to create posters, decoration or flyers. As an engineer, computer scientist, educator, politician, mathematician, environmental activist or artist he has always been able to work interdisciplinary. Being an active member of CartoonArt and the ARC artist collective, contributor for various cultural, educational and social projects as well as an author/illustrator of books like Humoristic Luxembourg, his common theme has always been to question everything combined with a dose of sarcasm.
Artistic Focus
innovation, uniqueness, caricature
Contributions to LUX:plorations:
The Future Is Now
Losing Orientation
Why did you participate in LUX:plorations?
“I like the idea of creative common and had done a lot of cartoons and illustrations, a domain similar to comics. Using drawings to illustrate science has always been part of my life, as well as creating cartoon figures to explain things.”
What did you like most about LUX:plorations?
« Working with nice people, although I would have preferred « presentiel » instead of online meetings. The transformation of a story into a script and then into a comic was a process I always wanted to do. »
What was the biggest challenge for you?
« I have always worked alone. Understanding what the aim of the comic was, the essence of the story, the thoughts of the students and the frights of the University was a challenge. And bringing the different drawings together to form pages. »
SCIENTIFIQUES/AUTEURS
ANDREÏ KOSTYRKA
Andreï Kostyrka from the Department of Economics and Management (DEM) at the Uni.lu is investigating Smoothed Empirical Likelihood for stratified or missing data, as well as financial econometrics.
Research Focus
Financial Econometrics
Affiliation
Department of Economics and Management
University of Luxembourg
Contributions to LUX:plorations:
Losing Orientation
DAVID FISAC CAMARA
David Fisac Camara from the DMATH is investigating curvature-free phenomena in hyperbolic geometry.
Research Focus
Hyperbolic Geometry
Affiliation
Department of Mathematics (DMATH)
University of Luxembourg
Contributions to LUX:plorations:
Losing Orientation
HANH VO
Hanh Vo from the Department of Mathematics (DMATH) at the Uni.lu is studying curves on hyperbolic surfaces.
Research Focus
Geometry
Affiliation
Department of Mathematics (DMATH)
University of Luxembourg
Contributions to LUX:plorations:
Losing Orientation
CHINTANKUMAR JANSARI
Chintankumar Jansari from the Department of Computer Science (DCS) at the Uni.lu studies an advanced analysis approach called Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) for various applications.
Research Focus
Computer Sciences
Affiliation
Department of Computer Science (DCS)
University of Luxembourg
Contributions to LUX:plorations:
Losing Orientation
MENTORE
VERONIKA MISCHITZ
Veronika Mischitz (Véro) is a former biologist, turned freelance visual storyteller. For over a decade, she focuses on visualizing and communicating science to broad audiences from various backgrounds through the medium comics. Driven by curiosity and a sense of wonder, she loves to explore unknown territory, learn new things along the way and turn them into compelling stories. Veronika is also teaching the magic of her craft to kids and adults. She is a mentor for LUX:plorations.
Work Focus
Visual communication, storytelling, science comics
Contributions to LUX:plorations:
Modern Talking
Keeping up With the Bacteria
Was it Really About Nature?
Losing Orientation
Why Science Comics?
A Furry Tale
A Gut Feeling
The Adventures of Tuwwo the Water Molecule
Math, Magic and Maryam
Why did you participate in LUX:plorations?
“As a comic artist and science communicator LUX:plorations is a dream come true: A group of highly motivated experts from different fields joining forces and creating outstanding science comics as a result!”
What did you like most about LUX:plorations?
“Working with such motivated, open and mindful participants as well as team members from different fields of research was amazing. Creativity and inspiration grew from our efforts as we explored new toolkits and skills together.”
What was the biggest challenge for you?
“Ensuring ongoing attention and support for all participants was extremely important to me and more challenging in an online-setting. But I think the whole team did a great job on that.”
SUPERVISEUR
NICOLE PASCHEK
Nicole Paschek loves to talk about science. During her studies in behavioural and neural biology, she also found her passion for writing and decided to study journalism as well. As a journalist, she realised that scientists sometimes struggle to explain what they do in an understandable way. Improving those skills is the mission of DESCOM, a training programme in science communication for doctoral candidates in Luxembourg. Since 2019, Nicole has been working as Project Manager of DESCOM.
Work Focus
Science communication, science education
Contributions to LUX:plorations:
The Future Is Now
Losing Orientation
The Adventures of Tuwwo the Water Molecule
Math, Magic and Maryam
Why did you participate in LUX:plorations?
« Science and Comics. This combination sounds too good to be true. I had to be part of this! »
What did you like most about LUX:plorations?
« With LUX:plorations we are bringing people from seemingly different worlds closer to each other: artists, scientists and the public. And by doing so, we realize that those worlds are in fact not so different from each other. »
What was the biggest challenge for you?
« Coordinating a long-term collaborative group effort of 34 people without loosing someone on the way. »