My story – how I combine my passion for science and fine art. An interview with Hera Herald.

The molecule in May is keratin. Keratin is found mainly in hair and skin and consists of two alpha helixes that twist on each other and form a superhelix.

Science cruise to Turku with both Finnish and Swedish participants. Pupils from middle school, high school and upper secondary school. Great fun!

The molecule in April is lycopene. It’s a bright red pigment found in tomatoes and other red fruits and vegetables, although not in strawberries. Lycopene is a linear molecule – I think it fits perfectly as a bracelet.

The 2017 Nobel Prize winner in Physics was Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for the observation of gravitational waves and the contributions to the detector that enabled detection. I designed a silver necklace showing collision between two black holes (oxidized silver) with gravitational waves.

The 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Aziz Sancar, Paul Modrich and Tomas Lindahl for having mapped how cells repair damaged DNA. I made a special piece of jewelry for the chemistry price. A damage, a point mutation in the DNA is shown as a gold bullet.(18K).

Insulin and glucagon work together to balance the blood–sugar levels in your body.

Exhibition at the science festival, SciFest, on Fyrishov with my silver protein structures. In addition, it was possible to make your own protein jewelry in aluminum wire – a glucagon jewelry. After three days, there were more than 500 running around with a glucagon necklace (in aluminum).