Pere Estupinyà

Pere Estupinyà Giné (born 17 October 1974) is a Spanish biochemist known for his work in popular science in books, conferences and TV shows.

Biography

Born in Tortosa (Spain), he studied at the University of Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona, where he majored in biochemistry; he holds a master's in nutrition and metabolism as well and started a PhD in genetics, but gave up to work in popular science.[1]

He has worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB).[2]

He wrote his first book – El ladrón de cerebros. Compartiendo el conocimiento científico de las mentes más brillantes – in 2010, and has since published several other popular science books. He started on TV in 2014 presenting a documentary for TV3 called Inversió de Futur ('Investment for the future'),[3] and later he made a TV documentary based on his first book S=EX2. La ciencia del sexo, released in 2013. In 2015 he produced and presented 13 episodes of the show El ladrón de cerebros en Ecuador, and the following year he developed, in collaboration with Minifilms, El cazador de cerebros, for the Spanish national broadcaster TVE, which he also directed and presented.[4] Since September 2016 he has participated in the radio weekend show A vivir que son dos días on Cadena SER.[5]

Books

  • El ladrón de cerebros. Compartiendo el conocimiento científico de las mentes más brillantes (Debate, 2010)
  • Rascar donde no pica (Debate, 2012)
  • El sexo en la consulta médica (Debate, 2013)
  • S=EX2. La ciencia del sexo (Debate, 2013)
  • El ladrón de cerebros. Comer cerezas con los ojos cerrados (Debate, 2016)
  • A vivir la ciencia. Las pasiones que despierta el conocimiento (Debate, 2020)

References

  1. ↑ Garrido, Inma (2016-05-11). "Pere Estupinyà: «Nos falta ciencia de la divulgación científica»". Jot Down (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  2. ↑ "Pere Estupinyà, comunicador científico: «El reto no es que el público se acerque a la ciencia, sino al revés»". El Mostrador (in Spanish). 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-04-18. EFE note reproduced in El Mostrador.
  3. ↑ "Sense ficció - Inversió de futur". TV3 (in Catalan). 2014-10-07. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  4. ↑ "'El cazador de cerebros' buscará en La 2 las mentes más brillantes de la ciencia y la investigación". RTVE (in Spanish). 2016-09-07. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
  5. ↑ "La Cadena SER se refuerza con nuevas voces para esta temporada". cadena SER (in European Spanish). 2016-09-05. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
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