Kalliopi Monoyios is an artist and science communicator working to mature the conversation around plastic. Driven by the conviction that science communicators operating in all spheres are a critical part of creating a scientifically literate public, she develops new avenues of public engagement with science via her own art and curated exhibits.

Monoyios holds a degree in geology from Princeton University. She built her early career as a science illustrator for the prominent paleontologist Neil Shubin at The University of Chicago. Her illustrations have appeared inside and on the covers of peer-review journals such as Nature and Science as well as The New York Times best-selling book Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin. She co-founded Symbiartic, a blog covering the intersection of art and science for Scientific American that ran for six years from 2011-2017. She served as President of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, an international group of visual science communicators, from 2020-2022, and continues to sit on the Board as Past-President.

Her work can be found at kalliopimonoyios.com