Sam Hertig: Visual Science Communication & Medical Software

Visual Science Communication

Offering interactive visualizations, graphics, and videos for selected clients, with an emphasis on visual communication of data and concepts in science and technology
Leading workshops and seminars on the topics of: Scientific Poster Design, Best Practices for Scientific Visualization, Interactive Data Visualization with D3.js, and Adobe Illustrator for Scientists
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Past clients include: ETH Zurich, Stanford University, CalTech, Universidade de Lisboa, and Comerge AG

I am currently working as a Technical Product Manager for Incremed, a Zurich-based MedTech startup. Our product SonoEyes is an Augmented Reality app that aims to improve ergonomics and hand-eye coordination during medical imaging procedures by using the Microsoft HoloLens 2
My resume (pdf for download, last update: 2021)
LinkedIn profile
List of scientific publications on Google Scholar
Other creative endeavors:
- Photography on Flickr
- Bassist for TonTopf

This rendering illustrates how a team of scientists determined parts of the structure of the RNA export platform, and its relative position within the nuclear pore complex. The circular plot symbolizes the interaction analysis between different proteins in the complex.
Client: Laboratory of Cellular and Structural Biology, The Rockefeller University (2016)
Software: Cheetah 3D, UCSF Chimera, and Adobe Photoshop

Interactive organization chart that maps principal investigators to their research areas. Live examples:
- Zurich Exhalomics
- Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences
Client: ETH Zurich (2017 / 2021)
Software: D3.js

Online tutorial on how to create a 3D visualization tool that allows anyone with access to the internet to explore a biomolecule interactively. The goal is not to program software for data analysis, but to craft a flexible, fully customizable and powerful data presentation tool.
Client: Gaël McGill for clarafi.com (2017)
Software: three.js and UCSF Chimera

Graphic showing newly developed interdisciplinary collaborations between Swiss research groups resulting from large-scale SystemsX.ch projects.
High-resolution pdf
Client: SystemsX.ch, The Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology (2017)
Software: Adobe Illustrator and circos.ca

Scientific poster on SonoEyes, an Augmented Reality application for the Microsoft HoloLens. Presented at the Swiss Medtech Day 2019.
High-resolution pdf
Created for Incremed AG (2019)
Software: Adobe Illustrator

The collabrative audio-visual art piece The Sound of Molecules premiered in Basel on 27 August 2017. A group of NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering scientists and Swiss artists teamed up with the argovia philharmonic orchestra to create a performance that stimulates the societal debate about the ethical challenges of synthetic biology.
Client: NCCR Molecular Systems Engineering, University of Basel (2017)
Software: Adobe AfterEffects

Visualization of a hydroxycholesterol molecule bound to an oxysterol-binding-protein, which is implicated in signal transduction pathways in both yeast and humans.
Client: California Institute of Technology (2019)
Software: Autodesk Maya and UCSF Chimera

Scientific poster on the molecular structure of the immature HI virion. Presented at the conference series Visualizing Biological Data (VIZBI) 2015. Earned the best poster award.
High-resolution pdf (19 Mb)
Created for University of California, San Francisco (2015)
Software: Adobe Illustrator and UCSF Chimera

Interactive visualization illustrating the structural mechanism of CRISPR gene editing (web experiment, 2017)
Software: three.js and UCSF Chimera

Video of a molecular dynamics simulation of two fibronectin domains in the context of an entire fibronectin fiber.
Created for the journal article A guide to the visual analysis and communication of biomolecular structural data, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology (2014)
Software: Autodesk Maya and VMD