Ryan Wyatt

Ryan Wyatt recently took on a new role as Vice President of Science Visualization and Public Engagement at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Previously, as Senior Director of Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization at the California Academy of Sciences, he wrote and directed the Academy’s nine award-winning fulldome video planetarium programs, all of which are science documentaries that rely on visualization to tell their stories, on topics ranging from astronomy to geology, ecosystem science, and conservation.

Trained as an astronomer, Wyatt has worked in the planetarium field since 1991; prior to San Francisco, he worked for six years as Science Visualizer at the American Museum of Natural History. Wyatt is cofounder and vice president of Immersive Media Entertainment, Research, Science, and Art (IMERSA), a professional organization dedicated to advancing the art and technology of immersive digital experiences. He served as co-chair of the 2017 and 2019 Gordon Research Conferences on Visualization in Science and Education (GRC/VSE). Wyatt is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the International Planetarium Society (IPS).