Hi, I'm Jolie…
Hi, I'm Jolie…
Hi, I'm Jolie…
Discoveries move fast but stay invisible.
The way we do research and science is changing. Deliverables can no longer just be papers — they need to be narratives, demos, and tools: mixed media that capture technical rigour and human context.
I'm writing The Distressed Scientists' Department, which revolves around these themes:
Funding, political, and technological shifts reshaping how research needs to be communicated;
What this means on a strategy level (branding, narrative, communication) and on a tooling level (the products and infrastructures we build);
Permeating arts and science into popular culture and wider domains.
My current creative pursuit is art curation, tracing how artistic movements influence science and technology.
Discoveries move fast but stay invisible.
The way we do research and science is changing. That means deliverables can’t just be papers — they need to be narratives, demos, and tools: mixed media that capture technical rigour and human context.
I'm writing The Distressed Scientists' Department, which revolves around these themes:
Funding, political, and technological shifts that will reshape how research needs to be communicated;
What this means on a strategy level (branding, narrative, communication) and on a tooling level (the products and infrastructures we build);
Integrating art and science through mixed media that is technically rigorous, aesthetically compelling, and able to permeate into popular culture and wider domains.
Discoveries move fast but stay invisible.
The way we do research and science is changing. That means deliverables can’t just be papers — they need to be narratives, demos, and tools: mixed media that capture technical rigour and human context.
I'm writing The Distressed Scientists' Department, which revolves around these themes:
Funding, political, and technological shifts that will reshape how research needs to be communicated;
What this means on a strategy level (branding, narrative, communication) and on a tooling level (the products and infrastructures we build);
Integrating art and science through mixed media that is technically rigorous, aesthetically compelling, and able to permeate into popular culture and wider domains.
I focused on neuroscience at MIT and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto, while:
🇺🇸 fundraising, interviewing, and marketing for Analogue, a R&D fund
🇺🇸 building Simulacra, a synthetic data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
🇺🇸 advising early stage teams like Cradle (Until Labs) and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and strategy;
🇨🇦🇲🇾 researching health economics and epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
🇨🇦 writing health policy and risk tooling for Health Canada/the Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
🇸🇬🇭🇰 tissue engineering and raising at Avant Meats;
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms to 500M+ views and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting grant distributions, strategy, and health policy. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I split my time between San Francisco, Toronto, and Calgary, and hold special places in my heart for Boston, New York City, and Singapore.
You can find me on X or email joliegcy @ gmail.com. I love to read on park benches and go on walks.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for thoughts on science, research, and in-betweens I find compelling.
I focused on neuroscience at MIT and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto, while:
🇺🇸 fundraising, interviewing, and marketing for Analogue, a R&D fund
🇺🇸 building Simulacra, a synthetic data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
🇺🇸 advising early stage teams like Cradle (Until Labs) and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and strategy;
🇨🇦🇲🇾 researching health economics and epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
🇨🇦 writing health policy and risk tooling for Health Canada/the Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
🇸🇬🇭🇰 tissue engineering and raising at Avant Meats;
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms to 500M+ views and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting grant distributions, strategy, and health policy. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I split my time between San Francisco, Toronto, and Calgary, and hold special places in my heart for Boston, New York City, and Singapore.
You can find me on X or email joliegcy @ gmail.com. I love to walk and talk with people and read in coffeeshops or park benches.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for thoughts on science, research, and in-betweens I find compelling.
I focused on neuroscience at MIT and bioinformatics/politics at the University of Toronto, while:
🇺🇸 fundraising, interviewing, and marketing for Analogue, a R&D fund
🇺🇸 building Simulacra, a synthetic data platform for predictive consumer analytics;
🇺🇸 advising early stage teams like Cradle (Until Labs) and PyraSim on GTM, growth, and strategy;
🇨🇦🇲🇾 researching health economics and epidemiology at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health;
🇨🇦 writing health policy and risk tooling for Health Canada/the Canadian Food Inspection Agency;
🇸🇬🇭🇰 tissue engineering and raising at Avant Meats;
My calling is in the craft. I grew two content platforms to 500M+ views and still film with creative teams from time to time, including a documentary translated from my epidemiological research and circulated by the Malaysian NIH.
I've served as an advisor to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and World Health Organization (WHO), supporting grant distributions, strategy, and health policy. My independent work has been backed by the Fulbright Foundation, the Malaysian NIH, Novartis, and others, for which I’m deeply grateful.
I'm about to visit my 55th country (track my travels) and host dine clubs around the world. I split my time between San Francisco, Toronto, and Calgary, and hold special places in my heart for Boston, New York City, and Singapore.
You can find me on X or email joliegcy @ gmail.com. I love to walk and talk with people and read in coffeeshops or park benches.
If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe for thoughts on science, research, and in-betweens I find compelling.
Acknowledgements - I owe much to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper, create better, and Let my Life Untangle.*
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*to Let my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time.
Acknowledgements - I owe everything and more to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper, create better, and Let My Life Untangle.*
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*Letting my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time.
Acknowledgements - I owe much to the people who shaped my path — friends, mentors, and collaborators who challenged me to think deeper, create better, and Let My Life Untangle.*
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*to Let my Life Untangle means approaching science and society with curiosity rather than rigid plans. This is the working thesis of my early 20s. During undergrad, this philosophy guided me through Toronto, New York, SF, Boston, Malaysia/Singapore, Thailand, Germany, and more as I pursued seemingly disparate projects: mapping flavour compounds, motorcycling through Taiwanese tea farms, collaborating with hawker food stalls and Michelin-starred chefs alike. I found myself building a company one semester, then researching systems the next. I've approached each experience not as a step on a predetermined path, but as part of an emergent pattern that reveals — untangles — itself over time.