PCST Network Committee
Committee member
Student representative
2025–2027
Shao-Jie (Nils) is a PhD candidate at ANU’s Centre for Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), focusing on how science and popular culture—through films, comic, and TV series—can mutually enchant each other. Before his journey at CPAS, he was a behavioural neuroscientist who focused on the neural mechanisms of social behaviour, autism, and procrastination.
Alongside his academic work, he is dreaming to create one film, one comic, one game — this is Shao-Jie’s vow for the next decade. Whatever it takes, he will make them real. And he recently has been busing at:
1. Producing a Taiwanese Hokkien podcast that introduces the history of science and technology in Taiwan, combining local dialects with public history and scientific literacy.
2. Producing a video game that explores a Taiwanese high school student’s emotional struggle to choose between science and the humanities—an interactive narrative that reflects on identity, education, and cultural expectation in Taiwan.
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