Author: Beat Glogger
Born: 1960
Bio: Beat Glogger (1960) studied Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Zurich, and was trained as a journalist at the Swiss Journalism School. He then worked for 14 years with Swiss Television’s science programme as a journalist, host and editor in chief.
He then lived for some years in Central America, where he produced reports for different European television stations and newspapers.  
Since 2002 he runs scitec-media, an agency for science communication in Switzerland again. His clients are universities, public and private institutions in the field of science and technology. Since November 2009 the agency produces the weekly published science pages in the newspaper «20 Minuten».
Beat Glogger today is also a teacher for science journalism at the Swiss Journalism School and trains scientists for their work with the media.
He has published several books in the field of popular science and two novels. «Xenesis» was awarded 2005 with the Media Prize of Swiss Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he was appointed to the advisory board of the same academy and elected as «Swiss Science Journalist of the Year». 2010 he received an honorary doctor from the University of Zurich for his great achievements in communicating science.