Shao-Jie has joined the Popsicule at CPAS!
Shao-Jie (Nils) is now a PhD candidate at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), focusing on how science and popular culture—through films, manga and TV series—can mutually enchant each other. Before his journey at CPAS, he was a behavioural neuroscientist who focused on the neural mechanisms of social behaviour, autism, and procrastination.
Alongside his academic work, he is dreaming to create one film, one comic, one game — this is Shao-Jie’s vow for the next decade. Whatever it takes, he will make them real. And he recently has been busing at:
- Producing a Taiwanese Hokkien (台語) podcast that introduces the history of science and technology in Taiwan, combining local dialects with public history to foster both cultural and scientific literacy.
- Producing a story-based video game (臺灣文學與貓咪) that explores a Taiwanese high school student’s emotional struggle to choose between science and the humanities—an interactive narrative that reflects on identity, education, and cultural expectation in contemporary Taiwan.
Across all his work, he aims to bridge the lab, society, and the arts, using science to hatch fictions.
Shao-Jie has recently published “Speaking to Impurity: The Preservation or Expulsion of Parasites in Iwaaki Hitoshi’s Parasyte” in Fantasy/Animation!
