Photo: Hafed Walda 2006

Bio Julie Tolmie

Dr Julie Tolmie is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London where she works in the structural visualisation of entities and relationships across a broad range of disciplines.

Julie is the author of the data and visualisation model and the scientific/technical coordinator of the BIOMAP, and the coordinator and principal investigator of the BioResources Map.

In the field of visualisation, at a national level in the UK, she represented 3DVisA, the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, within vizNET, the UK Visualization Support Network, organising two national conferences and an expert seminar in intersections in visualisation practices and techniques (2006-2009), 3DVisA @ vizNET.

She currently teaches in KCL's academic program at an MA level.

Julie holds a PhD in Mathematical Sciences from the Australian National University (2001) with a focus on abstract visual notation in mathematics.

Prior to moving to Europe, she held a faculty position in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver (2002-2005) where she focused on 3D stereo visualisation of particle systems and on the structural mapping of systems of patterns in game design.

In 2000-2001, Julie worked as a Post-Doc at Institut Henri Poincaré making mathematical images and animations for MathImage, Université en Ligne and Centre Emile Borel.

Previously she spent 10 years working at the Australian National University as a mathematics and statistics adviser at the Academic Skills and Learning Centre as a result of which she developed exceptional expertise in explaining and translating research questions and models across all disciplines.

During this period she also taught in a graduate seminar on mathematical structures for computer art and computer music composition at the Australian Centre for the Arts and Technology (now Photography and Media Arts, ANU) and her subsequent work has been exhibited in Australia, Canada, France, Hungary and the Netherlands.