Julieta Aguilera, Ph.D

Director

Julieta studied Design at the School of Architecture, Catholic University of Valparaíso, Chile. She holds two Masters of Fine Arts: design from the University of Notre Dame, and electronic visualization from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with an emphasis on Virtual Reality and a focus on shared spaces,. Because of these research interests, Julieta took a job at the Adler Planetarium’s Space Visualization Laboratory where she created or contributed to scientific visualizations for exhibitions and planetarium shows. Julieta eventually became the Associate Director of the Laboratory, working alongside Adler astrophysicists, educators and administration staff, as well as astrophysicists from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago. She handled weekly presentations on how scientific visualization and current technologies are used to explore, study and communicate scientific discoveries and theories. While at Adler she also spearheaded events geared to advance the understanding and integration of immmersive, collaborative and interactive media. She has taught the full Design curriculum, as well as Graphical Interfaces, Immersive Environments and Scientific Visualization (with scientist colleagues). While completing her Doctoral disertation with the Planetary Collegium at Plymouth University in the United Kingdom, Julieta worked for a year at the University of Hawai’i in Hilo, sponsored by the Academia of Creative Media and hosted by ‘Imiloa Planetarium. Julieta is a reviewer for Siggraph (computer graphics), IEEE’s VISAP (electronic visualization), ISMAR (Mixed and Augmented Reality), Leonardo Electronic Journal, and over the years has participated in various Conferences related to Art, Science, and Planetariums.