Emma Shiells: Picture editor at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

By The Mole2012-03-01T15:49:00

Emma works on magazines and books, sourcing scientific illustrations and photographs

It’s not often you hear someone refer to themselves as both a scientist and artist, but Emma counts herself as one of the lucky ones. If you had asked her 15 years ago what she wanted to be when she grew up, she would have said ‘a vet’. That changed when studying chemistry at A level, and two chemistry degrees later, she decided to hang up her lab coat and venture into the world of chemistry publishing.

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