psychoSoph is a comic on psychology, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
It is drawn by Dr. rer. nat. Sophie G. Elschner: I am a psychologist and cognitive scientist who has done her doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz, Germany, on the topics of empirical aesthetics and eye movements (eye tracking) and worked in the science of science communication at the Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence Integrated Energy Systems. By now I have done the jump into a full time career in science communication and work as a press, online and social media editor at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité. You can visit my homepage to find my portfolio and see my other drawings on the Soph’s Sketchpad blog.
Awards
psychoSoph recieved the WissKomm-Ambassador Award by the group for biological psychology and neuropsychology of the German Psychological Society e.V. and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychophysiologie und ihre Anwendungen e.V. in 2021 for future science communication projects.
psychoSoph has also received the Fast Forward Science Award 22/23 in the Open Box Special by Wissenschaft im Dialog and Stifterverband. The price honored the chapter “Earth is a beauty from above. The overview effect“.
Press
I was a guest in the German-language podcast Zeit für WissKomm in October 2024, where I talked about psychoSoph and comics as a science communication tool.
In April 2024 I was a guest on Scicomm Palaver, a German language podcast, where I talked about comics as a scicomm tool and the features of the communication of psychology.
In October 2023 I was a guest at Die Wissenschaftlerinnen und spoke with them about the psychoSoph-Comic in the Kopf & Kuchen format.
NaWik’s video on the psychoSoph comic was published in May 2023. I talk about how the comic is done.
In June 2023 I was a guest on the Metaphorigins podcast and talked about my work, science comics and psychoSoph with the awesome Kevin Jay Mercurio.
PsychoSoph was mentioned in the summary “Wissenswertes aus der #Wisskomm 23-05“ of NaWik as one of the projects of the month on 1st June 2023.
On 31st May 2023 I was chosen as “communicating scientist of the month” in the Wisskolumm of Wissenschaft im Dialog.
On 5th May 2023 Wissenschaftskommunikation.de published an interview on the psychoSoph comic with me. Thank you, Clara Morweiser, for the interview!
In April 2023 psychoSoph was featured in issue 14 of the NatureVolve magazine.
On 21st December 2022 I was a guest at the Clarified-Podcast and talked about science comics, their pros and cons and how a comic is made.
I presented at WissKon-LunchTalk was about psychoSoph und science comics on 11th November 2022.
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