Massimo Sandal

“Writing science isn’t just writing about a scientific fact: it should take readers to other places, as literature does”. This is how hournalist and science writer Massimo Sandal condenses literary culture and scientific training in his evocative writing. Ligurian by origin and German by adoption, he studied experimental biophysics in Bologna and computational biology in Aachen, where he lives. He has contributed to publications including Wired , Le Scienze, Il Tascabile and Il Post covering science, sociology and ecological crisis, as well as Scientific American and Spektrum der Wissenschaft. His first book, La malinconia del Mammut (Il Saggiatore, 2019), tells the great history of extinction, to show that nothing is forever on Earth. Not even us. Latest work translated to German: Die Melancholie des Mammuts (Hirzel, 2023).