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John Jacobsen is a software engineer and visual artist living in Chicago, Illinois. He studied art and physics at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, receiving his doctorate in physics in 1996. His doctoral work and postdoc focused on the AMANDA neutrino detector and the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. He also worked at CERN. In the 21st century, he has worked as a software engineer and painter, maintaining a regular studio practice since 2015 focusing on figurative art. He traveled to the Geographic South Pole ten times for AMANDA and IceCube.