Who is Trevix?

From physics to bioinformatics

TL;DR: I love both physics, biology, and everything in between. Bioinformatics is my way to navigate nature's mess! Son of painters who wanted to have a painter boy, they pushed the rebellious child in me into science instead. Since early childhood I always loved the pleasure of discovering patterns in nature. Loving both physics and biology, I started with what I perceived as more difficult, physics, with the idea of going downslope after it. After getting my degree in Theoretical Physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, I moved to biophysics (my MSc) and computational biology (my PhD) and realised that I was wrong all the time: biology is not "easier" than physics, it's actually more difficult... so difficult that most people give up fully understanding everything, and focus on emergent patterns even if they don't know where they come from.

Why I draw (and how it helps the science)

TL;DR: I use drawing to transmit the emotion of science when words aren't enough. After years modelling data and developing tools, I dusted off the sketchbooks I’d buried as a kid, reclaimed the skills my parents patiently taught me for years, and folded them back into my day job. These days, in addition to analysing datasets, programming, publishing and teaching, I enjoy turning all that into pictures that reveal the hidden mechanisms, and make complex ideas feel evident (and a little joyful). After all... didn't Santiago Ramón y Cajal become the father of modern neuroscience in part through his love for drawing? He made drawings of what he saw in the microscope (in a time in which photography and microscopy didn't fit well) making evident that our brain is made of discrete but interconnected neurons. If I replicate a 1% of his success, I will be satisfied.

In TrevixArt I bring that same research mindset to visual communication: reading closely, clarifying mechanisms and uncertainty, and iterating with you until the figure or cover communicates the science precisely and beautifully.

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