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Pere 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’s worked for two years at the Office of Communications of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda - Washington DC. As a freelance Pere has written about science in the main Spanish publications, like El País, El Mundo, La Vanguardia, Público, or Muy Interesante. He owns an acclaimed scientific blog in El Pais, and is the US correspondent for the scientific news agency SINC.

He works for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a Knight Science Journalism Tracker for Latin America. Pere has been a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Organization of American States (OAS) in topics regarding the improvement of science communications in Latin America. He’s giving conferences in México, Perú, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Ecuador and the main international events on science journalism.

In November 2010 Pere Estupinyà published his first book on science for the general public: “El ladrón de cerebros” (The brain’s thief) which is in its 5th reprint. In summer 2011 Pere published the electronic book “Scratch where it doesn´t itch” (Rascar donde no pica), and he’s writing a new book to be released in spring 2013.

Pere Estupinyà lives in New York City, and defines himself as a scientific omnivore who writes about science as an excuse to learn more about, and enjoy, its wonders.