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Cinta S. Bellmunt is an evolutionary journalist, a community manager, an archaeologist and an author from Catalonia (Spain). Currently, she is the Head of Communication in the IPHES (Catalan Institute of Human Palaeoecology and Social Evolution), directed by the archaeologist Eudald Carbonell (codirector of the Atapuerca Research Team). This Institute is very present on the Internet, with many communication channels: blogs, podcasting, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook… and is considered a point of reference in the use of Information and Communication Technologies to socialize science.

Since 1988 she has been collaborating with Eudald Carbonell with whom he has written two books for the general public: Els somnis de l’evolució (Dreams of evolution, published by National Geographic) and El catalanisme evolutiu (Evolutionary Catalanism). Now, they are writing another book together.

She is graduated in Information Science and also holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Journalism and an Erasmus Mundus Master in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution.
She has worked as a freelance for several media (newspapers, radio, television, news agencies). Since 1997, she also works in the Rovira i Virgili University’s Department of Communication and External Relations.

She defines herself as a vocational journalist highly motivated to learn.