Dr Anna-Sophie Jürgens is an Assistant Professor in Science Communication focusing on Popular Entertainment Studies at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science of the Australian National University (ANU) and the creator of the POPSICULE, ANU’s Science in Popular Culture and Entertainment Hub. Her research explores the cultural meanings of science, and science and comic performance in different media. Anna-Sophie has published on comic parasites and Joker viruses in (animated) fiction, environmental fragility in street art, and clowns and scientists in comics and popular theatre in numerous academic journals. Her recent books include Circus and the Avant-Gardes (Co-Editor, Routledge 2022) and Circus, Science and Technology: Dramatising Innovation (Editor, Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Anna-Sophie is the Editor-in-Chief of the peer-reviewed open access online journal w/k – Between Science and Art (English section) and Associate Editor of the Journal of Science & Popular Culture.