Elena Milani

Elena (AKA @biomug) is a PhD student in science communication at the University of the West of England (UK) since 2015, and her research focuses on vaccine images for advocacy shared by Twitter communities. She is also a member of the Science Communication Unit at the same university, and the founder of scihashtag.co.uk, an open collection of hashtags for networking in academia and science communication. Elena completed an MSc in Neuroscience (2013) and a Master's in Science Communication (2014) before starting her PhD studies, however, her work experience has focused mainly on digital and visual communication. She worked as a web reputation analyst for an Italian Web Agency, and she participated in several science outreach events and scientific conferences, organizing, and moderating live tweeting.