Interviews
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Science Media Days in Madrid: Interview with Patricia Fernández de Lis
Interview with Patricia Fernández de Lis, multi award winning science and technology journalist and Chief-Editor of Materia, El País’ science section. Based on your long experience, what makes a good science journalist? Patricia Fernández de Lis: Although I cannot say that there is a fixed recipe,... -
Science Media Days in Madrid: Interview with Pampa García Molina
Interview with Pampa García Molina, journalist, writer and editor on science, technology, health, and environment. From 2011 to 2022 she was editor-in-chief of Agencia SINC, a Spanish news agency specialised in science. Now she is editor-in-chief of ScienceMediaCentre.es, an independent office that provides... -
Prof. Tom Crowther: ‘Microbial soil life is crucial for climate regulation’
Ecologist Prof. Tom Crowther of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich and co-chair of the advisory board of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, speaks about climate change mapping and the role of soil biodiversity. As a global ecosystem scientist, you founded the Restor platform,... -
Prof. Antje Boetius: ‘Being at the pulse of the ocean to better understand its role in climate change’
Prof. Antje Boetius, Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, speaks about marine microbiomes and global warming. As a whaler, your grandpa already warned you about future threats to the ocean; as a scientist, you have studied the polar seas and marine... -
An expert’s opinion: Interview with David Moher on predatory journals
Professor David Moher, Director of the Canadian Centre for Journalology, a centre that conducts research on publication practices, speaks about the, in his words, "perverse incentives in academia to publish", and about the impact of less trustworthy sources of scientific information on policy. How... -
An expert’s opinion: Interview with Ivan Oransky on the perils of scientific publishing
Medical writer Ivan Oransky, co-founder of the blog Retraction Watch and Editor-in-Chief of the autism research news website Spectrum, speaks about the difficulties of assessing the quality of peer review and of retraction, the process of publication withdrawal of articles that display flawed or erroneous... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Prof Michael Norton on burning wood as renewable energy
Interview with Professor Michael Norton, Environment Programme Director at the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC) and Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Shinshu University and Tohoku University. According to a Joint Research Centre (JRC) publication, the global production... -
A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Dr Alessandro Agostini on burning wood as renewable energy
Interview with Dr Alessandro Agostini, researcher at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) According to a Joint Research Centre (JRC) publication, the global production of wood pellets reached 29 million tonnes in 2016, of which more...