Jorge Wagensberg

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Jorge Wagensberg (Barcelona, Spain, 1948) graduated with a degree in Physics in 1971 and completed his doctorate in 1976 at the University of Barcelona, where today he is Professor in the Theory of Irreversible Processes in the Physics Faculty and he also leads a biophysics research group. He is the author of numerous scientific works that have appeared in international publications and of an extensive range of work spreading popular science towards other realms of culture. In 1980 he published the book Nosotros y la ciencia, which was followed by Ideas sobre la complejidad del mundo (1985), Introducció a la Teoría de la Probabilitat i la Informació (1996), Amazonia, ilusiones ilustradas (1996), Ideas para la imaginación impura. 53 reflexiones en su propia sustancia (1998) and Si la naturaleza es la respuesta, ¿cuál era la pregunta? (2002). In 1983 he created the «Metatemas» scientific thought collection for Tusquets Editores and since 1991 he has been the Director of the “la Caixa” Foundation’s Science Museum.