I like to create illustrations of science to help communicate complex physics, particularly that of the research I do. I use these images in science and outreach talks. Below, you can find some examples of my work.

Schematic for pebble drift in HD 163296

I created this schematic for Figure 1 of Williams & Krijt 2025, which illustrates how icy pebble drift creates enhancements in the CO abundance around the CO snowline. The pebbles continue to the inner disc and sublimate their water, available for terrestrial planet formation. The schematic indicates where telescopes (JWST, ALMA, NOEMA) can observe in the disc.

You can get a higher quality version of this image from the graphics page for the paper on ADS.

First Detection of Water Ice in an Exo-Kuiper Belt

I created this diagram to illustrate the physics and first detection of water ice in an exo-Kuiper Belt, used in an Astrobites article I wrote. Infrared radiation is reflected off water ice, which creates the reflectance spectra that Xie et al. 2025 used to detect water ice. The UV from the star photodesorbs water from the small grains; small grains are replenished by collisions between bigger grains.

Origin of Water in PDS 70

I created this diagram for an Astrobites article I wrote on the discovery of water around PDS 70. Giant planets block big pebbles from entering the inner disc, but small pebbles might sneak past. The presence of CO₂ indicates self-shielding water, which protects the CO₂ from being destroyed by stellar UV radiation.