Poster Session I: UNDERGRAD, DAP, GFB, DGRAV, DNP, DPF, GPMFC, DPB, GPER, FPS, FHPP, FDI, FECS, FED, DCOMP, GDS, GENERAL

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Tuesday March 18 // Session MAR-H00 //Anaheim Convention Center, Exhibit Hall A

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Sponsored by: APS

Demystifying who is a Physicist: Portrait of a Scientist

Poster 410

Presenter: Jessie Micallef (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Portrait of a Scientist is a collaborative project that aims to deconstruct stereotypes about who is and can be a scientist. The project attempts to showcase people's multifaceted identities through visual mediums. Participants are asked to complete the phrase "I am a scientist and I also..." with any hobby, role, or identity that they feel comfortable sharing. The most engagement with the project, which has been running since 2021, has occurred when responses are collected during in-person particle physics conferences and meetings. This has had the added benefit of introducing participants to each other's uniqueness, or even their similarities, that goes beyond physics. This poster will highlight some of the project's responses, interactions, and outcomes and discuss expanding its potential future impact.

Funding acknowledgement

This work is supported by the National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786 (The NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, http://iaifi.org/).

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