About the artist

Hi! I’m Julia. I’ve been drawing and painting my entire life. I spent the last six years in graduate school for Aerospace Engineering.

Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be an artist. Coming out of high school, however, I ended up going to Georgia Institute of Technology and majoring in Aerospace Engineering. I participated in a wide variety of undergraduate research and ultimately went to graduate school for my PhD under Dr. Joseph Oefelein. I completed my doctorate in December 2025. My thesis covered using computational fluid dynamics simulations to improve our understanding of unsteadiness mechanisms of non-adiabatic shock-turbulent boundary layer interactions using a novel loosely coupled conjugate heat transfer methodology. Writing my thesis was the hardest task I’ve ever accomplished. I am proud I stuck with it, and equally grateful to my advisor and fellow graduate students for their support and faith in me. Over the 10 years I spent in higher education, my interests shifted from industry to academia to working in a national lab and back to industry, yet all the while, my passion for art stayed constant.

It’s been a fun journey and I hope my work brings you joy. I took a short break after finishing my PhD to focus on my art full time, but it’s now time to move into the next phase of my career as an engineer and scientist. Meanwhile, stay tuned here as I continue to paint and draw every day.