Catanzaro, Michele

Michele Catanzaro (Rome, Italy, 1979) is a journalist based in Barcelona, Spain. He has a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC, Barcelona) on complex networks theory. He has worked since 2001 as a freelance, writing about science, environment, health, technology, and science policy. He has worked as well on justice and organized crime. His working languages are English, Spanish, Italian, and Catalan. He collaborates with Nature, Chemistry World, El Periódico (Spanish newspaper) and Le Scienze (Italian version of Scientific American), among other media. He is the author of the book "Networks: A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford University Press, 2012). He he also the co-author of the documentary "Fast Track Injustice: The Óscar Sánchez Case" (2014), that received the Golden Nymph Award in 2015. His work has been recognized also by the King of Spain International Journalism Prize for his investigation in the justice miscarriage case of Óscar Sánchez; the European Science Writer of the Year 2016 Award for his investigation in forensic phonetics; the BBVA Innovadata award for Fuga2, a data-journalism project on the Spanish brain drain; and the Prismas Award 2017 for his coverage of CRISPR. He has been director and script writer for RTVE (the Spanish public television) and BarcelonaTV. He has been content curator for exhibitions in collaboration with Mediapro Exhibitions. He has experience in communication, directing web documentaries for European research and communication projects and for the science&arts exhibition at Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona), and for the Culture Institute of Barcelona (ICUB). He was press officer at the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Barcelona. He has coordinated public lectures in science at the 150-years-old cultural association Ateneu Barcelonès. He teaches and mentors students in science communication at the Master in History of Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He regularly gives lessons and workshops in science popularization. He has been a member of the board of the Catalan Association for Science Communication. He has been Journalist in Residence at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies.