Pere Estupinyà

Estupinyà is a Chemist and Biochemist from Spain who, after a short time as a PhD researcher, moved to science journalism. He has been the editor of REDES, the leading Spanish television program on science, and lectured in Science, Technology and Society at the Ramon Llull University.

In 2007-2008 he spent one academic year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. He writes about science for different Spanish publications, collaborates on radio programs, gives conferences, and owns an acclaimed scientific blog in El Pais. He lives in Washington DC while working at the National Institutes of Health and writing as a freelance journalist for various Spanish and US media outlets. Pere says he is a scientific omnivore who writes about science as an excuse to learn more about, and enjoy, its wonders.