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.

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

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'), and later he made a TV documentary based on his first book, 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. Since September 2016 he has participated in the radio weekend show A vivir que son dos días on Cadena SER.

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)
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 * El ladrón de cerebros. Comer cerezas con los ojos cerrados (Debate, 2016)
 * A vivir la ciencia. Las pasiones que despierta el conocimiento (Debate, 2020)