Pere Estupinyà

Pere Estupinyà is a biochemist, writer and science communicator. He is the author of the books “El ladrón de cerebros” (Debate, 2010), “S = EX2: La ciencia del sexo” (Debate, 2013) and “Comer cerezas con los ojos cerrados” (Debate, 2016). He currently co-presents the science section of the program “A Vivir” on Cadena Ser, writes in several media, and directs and presents the program “El Cazador de cerebros” on TVE. Before returning to Spain he lived eight years in the USA (2007-2015), where he was Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also worked at the Media Branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), was a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), wrote the acclaimed blog "Apuntes Científicos desde el MIT” in El País, and began to travel throughout Latin America, giving lectures and consultancies to companies and organizations. He is considered one of the most original writers and thinkers in the field of the current scientific and technological revolution.