Pere Renom
His professional interests focus on science and science communication.
In science, his specialty is ecology and evolution. For seven years he worked in a doctoral thesis dedicated to the marine plant Posidonia oceanica, at the University of Barcelona and at the Blanes Advanced Study Center (CSIC). One of the chapters of the thesis goes obtain the Iso-Analytical Student Research Award (Cheshire, United Kingdom, 2003).
He coordinated the Alguers Surveillance Network, a project that combined research, management and environmental education along the Catalan coast, project that goes to be awarded the 2001 Mediterranean Award, granted by the Center for Initiatives ecological In the context of this project he published the informative article “La Mediterranean, a sea of gods, his study, a tavern of heroes”, which obtained the Albert Pérez Bastardas Award 2002, granted by the Roca i Galés Foundation.
He edited a monthly newsletter (35 issues) and published a children’s story about Posidonia, published by the Generalitat de Catalunya. The story was translated into Spanish, French and Arabic within the framework of a European project of international cooperation and was distributed for free among Tunisian schoolchildren.
He has also published three popular books “Curiosities of the Natural World for Everyone” (2018) and “50 questions and answers for everyone” (2020) with the publishing house Baula, and “Science under the spotlight” with the publisher Cossetània and TV3 (2022).
From 2006 to 2019, he worked as an editor and reporter for the outreach program scientist at the Television of Catalonia “Quèquicom”. During this period it took a term 143 reports (30′) that allowed him to dive under the ice, fly in balloons hot air ballooning, skydiving, submarine diving, swimming across the Strait of Gibraltar, run a marathon, climb, go caving or experience weightlessness in a parabolic flight with the European Space Agency.
His report “Diabetes: when the sweet is bitter” won the National Award and International Novo Nordisk 2008. The report “The cord that gives lives” was recognized with the Boeringer Ingelheim Prize for medical journalism 2008, and the 3rd prize at Badajoz International Medical Film Festival 2008. The report “Atrapa raigs” was awarded the XVI Science in Action Award 2015. The report “El vol parabolic” was distinguished with an honorable mention in the 19th Science in Action Award 2018. And the report “Deextinction: reviving a species” won the Prisma Award 2019, for the best science popularization video.
Since 2019, he has been conducting a weekly science section live on the programme Televisió de Catalunya “Tot es mou”, where it has accumulated more than 200 interventions (6′-14′).
In 2023, he obtained a doctorate in biomedicine at the Pompeu Fabra University with excellent results cum laude for the thesis “Understanding evolution through genomic analysis of extinct species”. Their first paper (collective) recovers the complete genomic sequence of the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), extinct in 1918. Published in the magazine Current Biology (2020), has been highlighted on the cover due to its relevance, I reviewed in magazines and newspapers such as: el País, National Geographic, the BBC, the magazine Forbes, the World and The Times.