I am Simone Ramello, a science communicator and mathematician.
I craft stories for a living, using words, images, and data. When family asks, I say that I help researchers communicate their work, supporting them in communication strategies, visual storytelling, and outreach.
© 2026 Simone Ramello. Valkyrie by Matthew Butterick. Photographs by Giulia Venus.
I work as a communication officer (QBio, MIRRI-IT) | visual storyteller (CMCC) | writer and editor. I have co-founded Collettivo Ottavia, an urban lab exploring the interplay between data and society, education, and visual arts.
PhD in Mathematics, Cluster of Excellence Mathematics Münster
Postgraduate Certificate in Science Communication, International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA)
I was asked to design an illustration to represent the content of the scientific paper Gut microbiome profiling at multiple sclerosis onset as a potential early prognostic marker of disease course: evidence from an observational cohort study. The paper appeared in the October 2026 Issue of THE LANCET Discovery Science's journal eBioMedicine. The illustration was selected through a competitive process to appear on the cover of the Issue. Full size
I was asked to design the cover for a PhD thesis in computational oncology. Building on the mathematical model developed within the thesis, I built a data-driven design to showcase how multiple mutations appear and interact within a tumour. Full size
Take a look at some of my older work!
Behance portfolioHow can we use stories to communicate mathematics? In this workshop, targeted at early-career mathematicians, we walk through the basics of science communication and the central ideas of storytelling. We learn how to identify the fundamental parts of a story and its workings. We then see how storytelling can be used in the communication of scientific research, and mathematics in particular.
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