Jacopo Niccolò Cerasoni earned his PhD in 2022 from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (now the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology) and Eberhard Karls Universitat Tübingen, with a focus on the archaeology of western Africa and scientific imaging. He is a Chicago-based paleoscientist, Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA), and scientific illustrator. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biology at Loyola University Chicago, where he works on lacustrine ecosystems and paleolandscape reconstruction. His broader work moves across archaeology, geology, evolutionary biology, and cartography to explore the deep time interplay between culture, ecology, and the Earth's biological past.

As an academic researcher, he examines long-term environmental dynamics to better understand how past landscapes shaped human and other biological life. As a freelance designer, he specializes in data driven scientific illustration and research inspired art, ranging from publication figures to cover artwork and visual storytelling for press releases. Drawn to structure and spatial clarity, his work reveals the underlying patterns in both natural systems and human history.

Selected Periodicals, Media Coverage, and Clients:
Nature
The Guardian
Le Monde
CNN
The Stephen Colbert Show
Reuters
Science News
Smithsonian Magazine
Archaeology Magazine
iScience
PLOS One
Journal of Maps
Max Planck Society
Loyola University Chicago
The Leakey Foundation
Prof. Alice Roberts “From Cell to Civilization” Tour

For inquiries related to design and illustration freelance work, please contact me at jcerasoni@gmail.com.

For academic collaborations and research-related communications, please reach out at jcerasoni@luc.edu.