Dr. Jodilyn Blake was born almost thirty two years ago in the city of Delphi on Caprica. Her family was a military one, having moved from Aquaria, her father being a career officer with her mother being a house wife. From the very beginning, they raised their eldest daughter with the values of education and love, growing up in a happy home, surrounded by her younger siblings. She was the eldest of three and from the get go, she felt the pressure. Her father was a golden child of the family, and thus, as the eldest, she would be the golden child as well. Anything she did, had to be perfect in her mind, or she worried that she would no longer have her parents' love.
Her childhood was filled with days basking in the sun, but academics came naturally to her. She liked the sciences especially and loved to tinker with anything mechanical. This pleased her father who served as a chief engineer on board the Orion for a number of years before retiring from active duty. As such, upon high school graduation, she applied and got into Caprica University in Caprica city on a scholarship.
Biochemistry became her interest there and she studied and worked hard. The sciences came naturally to her along with engineering, and thus she worked her way through her degree in no time. Graduate school would soon follow and she stayed at Caprica University, going for her doctorate in biomedical engineering. There she worked in an interdisciplinary project on the studying neural networks, how the nerves in a human body could communicate such massive amounts of information through seemingly simple biochemical means. This became her obsession, picking up skills in biophysics and engineering along nthe way as new equipment had to be developed and fabricated in order to study this phenomena.
Her graduate record and her lengthy list of publications and awards from grad school would get her noticed. Caprica University was an elite school amongst the colonies and they would keep their talent, and at the tender age of twenty eight, she was offered an associate professorship in the department of biomedical engineering.
There, she would go and have a promising laboratory group that would even delve into possible cybernetics to replace lost limbs, based on her neural network research as graduate student. Her father had lost his leg while in the military and thus this was a field of research that had intrigued her. Still, this made her some enemies amongst the academic elite especially with the first Cylon war not too long ago. Still, she pushed through and would give talks in academia, industry and government about her research.
Luckily for her, her father's contacts in the military wanted her to give a talk with a summit of military engineers, doctors and scientists who wanted to hear about her work. This brought her to a conference where she was picked up and began a speaking tour of sorts, teaching engineers and scientists what she knew. She even worked with military researchers to try to develop new technologies, which was her forte. Currently, she's with the quorum delegation looking over various things on the Cerberus. In addition, she's slated at giving a talk aboard the Battlestar, eagerly awaiting to speak with their chief engineer and other scientists and engineers so she can share her knowledge and learn from theirs.