About Anna

Anna Blacka is a Scientific Illustrator, Communicator, and Graphic Designer, with over 20 years of experience in creating graphics for environmental, coastal, and oceanographic geosciences and processes.

Anna’s scientific illustrations including infographics, diagrams, graphical abstracts and technical figures, have been published widely in academic journals, consulting investigations, industry communication, outreach, and community engagement campaigns.

Anna manages several University owned social media channels and websites, disseminating complex technical academic and applied research topics to a global audience. As a qualified Graphic Designer, she maintains marketing and promotional material, designs logos, brochures and posters.

Having graduated from a Bachelor of Design (Visual Communication), Anna began her career in photographic studios, where she worked with digital image manipulation, photo retouching and restoration; before blending her love of art and her interest in science together, leading her towards pursuing more specialised scientific illustration.