Joris van Alphen Photography

Science Portfolio

Editorial work for scientific and science-related magazines.

  • Microraptor

    Microraptor

    This feathered dinosaur, Microraptor gui, sheds light on the origins of bird flight, which has been the subject of a raging scientific debate for over a century.

  • Menno Schilthuizen & Wake-Up Light Experiment

    Menno Schilthuizen & Wake-Up Light Experiment

    Left: Scientific director of the National Museum of Natural History Naturalis, Menno Schilthuizen. Right: Chronobiological experiment with wake-up light.

  • Table des Marchands

    Table des Marchands

    This dolmen in Brittany, France, is nearly 6000 years old.

  • Walter Jakob Gehring

    Walter Jakob Gehring

    For his discovery of the homeobox in 1983, developmental biologist Walter Gehring was awarded the Kyoto Prize and the Balzan Prize.

  • Jacques van Alphen

    Jacques van Alphen

  • Jacques van Alphen with Cichlid

    Jacques van Alphen with Cichlid

  • JvA-20090126-3925

    JvA-20090126-3925

  • Rudolf Wessels

    Rudolf Wessels

    MyDNA co-founder Rudolf Wessels in front of his own myDNA-portrait.

  • JvA-20060529-5718

    JvA-20060529-5718