Education

PhD candidate in Digital Media
(applied to visual science communication)
Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto
2011-present

Graduate Certificate
Science Illustration Program

University of California, Santa Cruz
2003/04

5-year degree (licenciatura) in Applied Biology in Animal Resources
Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon 1997/02

Certificate Science Illustration Program
Autonomous University of Lisbon,
Institute of Arts and Crafts
, 2002/03

Introduction to Drawing Program
National Fine Arts Society
Lisbon, 1995/98
 
Skills
Illustration experience using traditional black and white and color media such as graphite, carbon dust, pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, gouache and colored pencil. Digital 2D and 3D illustration, graphic design (including creation and customization of computer fonts), animation and web services on both Windows and Mac platforms using Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya 3D, Fontographer, InDesign, Dreamweaver, HMTL, Drupal, Flash, ToonBoom, After Effects, Acrobat, PowerPoint, FileMakerPro
Experience
Freelance illustrator and instructor
2003-present
Assistant Lecturer of the Drawing Master Program of the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon
2010-present
Collaborator of the Illustration Master Program of the Higher Institute for Education and Sciences
2009-present
Collaborator illustrator
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum
of Natural History, Department of Entomology,
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA

Washington DC, November 2004-2009
Instructor of the Introduction to Digital Science Illustration Workshop
Center for the Research and Studies of Anatomy and Science Illustration, Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon, March-May 2006
Program Coordinator
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
Washington DC-Chapter
, January 2008-present
President
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators
Portugal-Chapter, September 2009-present
Council Vice-President for Portugal
Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques
March 2011-present
Aditional Education: Internships & Workshops
Experimental Animation Course
Digital Summer Institute,
UT Austin-Portugal Program
Porto, June-July 2011
Digital Animation Course
Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon
March-June 2010
Scientific Diving Course
Smithsonian Scientific Diving Program
Washington DC, May 2007
3D Animation Course in Maya
Corcoran College of Art+Design
Washington DC, September-December 2006

Flash Workshop
Portuguese Institute of Youth
Lisbon, March 2006
Training of Trainers Workshop
Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, January-March 2005
Creating Computer Typefaces Workshop
Visual Art, Design and Marketing Institute
Lisbon, January-March 2005

Science Illustration Internship
Division of Paleontology of the American Museum of Natural History
NY, September-November 2004
Science Illustration Internship
Entomology and Crustacean Sections of the Queensland Museum
Brisbane, Australia, July-September 2004
Internship in Applied Biology “Fluctuating Asymmetry in two sibling species of Cicada L. (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha)”
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2001/02
Science Illustration Workshop
Institute of Environmental Promotion, 2000/01
Science Illustration Workshop
Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon, 1998/99
Associations

Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques (AEIMS)
since 2009
Council Vice-President for Portugal

União Nacional dos Ilustradores Científicos (UNIC, Brazil)
since 2008
Portuguese Biologists Order
since 2001

Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI)
since 1999
President GNSI-Portugal Chapter

Exhibitions
(see also the News section)  
4th National Meeting of Illustration,
São João da Madeira, Portugal, 2011
Exhibition of an Image, AEIMS conference
Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg, 2011

III National Exhibition of Scientific Illustration, National Congress, Brasília, Brazil, 2010

Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano,
Italy, 2009
Science Center of Sintra, Portugal, 2008 (permanent one-man show) Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Fort Kent, ME, 2009
XII National Meeting of Biology Students
Braga, Portugal, 2008 (one-man show)
Focus on Nature X
New York State Museum, 2008
Illustrators Club Juried Exhibition 14
Washington DC, 2008
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 39th Annual Juried Exhibition, Bozeman, MT, 2007
National Museum of Natural History
University of Lisbon, 2006
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 38th Annual Juried Exhibition, Madison, WI, 2006
Park Show, Chico Creek Nature Center
Chico, CA, 2006
Science by Photography, Belém Cultural Center, Lisbon, 2006
Insects and Art exhibition, Sherwell Center
University of Plymouth, UK, 2004
XI Iberian Conference of Entomology
Funchal, Portugal, 2004
Museum of Natural History
Santa Cruz, CA, 2004
XXII International Congress of Entomology
Brisbane, Australia, 2004
Institute of Arts and Crafts
Autonomous University of Lisbon, 2003
Center of Art and Visual Communication
Lisbon, 2003
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 33rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Bar Harbor, ME, 2001 Guild of Natural Science Illustrators 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Évora, 2000
Selected Publications
Salgado, P.; Marques, D.; Bigio, A. & Farinha, N., Five Centuries of Natural Science Illustration in Portugal, Assírio & Alvim, Lisbon, 2011 (in press) Adamski, D. & Boege, K. et. al., Two new species of Wockia Heinemann (Lepidoptera:Urodidae) from coastal dry-forests in Western Mexico, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 111(1), 2009
Marques, D., “A Look at Science Illustration in Brazil”, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Annual Journal, November 2008 (pdf-768 Kb) Ewart, A. & Marques, D., “A new genus of grass cicadas (Hemiptera:Cicadoidea:Cicadidae) from Queensland, with description of their songs”, Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, July 2007
"Planeta com Vida", 10th grade Biology and Geology textbook, Santillana-Constância, Lisbon, 2006 Gaffney, E., Tong, H. & Meylan, P., "Evolution of the side-necked turtles: the families Bothremydidae, Euraxemydidae and Araripemydidae", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, number 300, NY, 2006
Marques, D., “The 26 Letters in Science Illustration”, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Newsletter, January 2006
(pdf-3.4 Mb)
Marques, D., “The Importance of Entomological Illustration: Worth a Thousand Words”, XXII International Congress of Entomology, Brisbane, Australia, 2004
(pdf-684 Kb)
Bay Nature Magazine
Berkeley, CA, July-September 2004

Quartau, Rodrigues & Marques, “On the colour polymorphism of Asianidia chinai in Madeira (Hemiptera:Cicadellidae, Typhlocybinae)”, Arquivos do Museu Bocage, vol. IV, no 2, pp. 159-170, Lisbon, 2004
Selected Presentations
(see also the News section)  
International Conference
Image in Science and Art
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2011
Collaborating with the Smithsonian
Association Européenne des Illustrateurs Médicaux et Scientifiques Congress
Milan, Italy, 2009
Science Illustration and Nature Preservation
II Brazilian Science Illustration Meeting
Curitiba, Brazil, 2008
Evolution of whales animation video for the Ocean Hall of the Smithsonian
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Conference
Ithaca, NY, 2008
Mexico Fest - traditional illustration demo, National Museum of Natural History
Washington DC, 2007
Fossil Fest - microscopic paleo illustration demo, National Museum of Natural History
Washington DC, 2007
A book: insects, drawing and letters
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Conference
Madison, WI, 2006
Communicating science through images
1st Communicating Science in Portugal Meeting
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras, 2006
The 26 letters in science illustration
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Conference
Bar Harbor, ME, 2005
Bugfest - digital entomological illustration demo
National Museum of Natural History
Washington DC, 2005
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