Welcome to my personal page! My name is Enric and I am a physicist and science communicator.

Or, as I prefer to describe myself: I am a kind of translator who, instead of translating from one language to another, translates complex scientific ideas into interesting stories accessible to everyone.

From a very young age I have always been very curious about how the things around me work: from why a fridge keeps things cold to why clouds look the way they do. But what obsessed me the most during my teenage years was the Universe: I read books about the Solar System, watched documentaries about the Universe and ‘devoured’ science communication videos on YouTube.

That is why I studied physics, to be able to explore more deeply all these questions I had. Studying physics was not easy at all, but I enjoyed it a lot despite the challenges. Thanks to this training, I have gained the ability to understand very abstract and complex ideas, and even to connect concepts that seem far apart from each other.

But precisely because of what made me fall in love with physics, I decided to specialise in science communication: in the same way that others made me love science, I wanted to be able to inspire people and bring all these concepts closer to them. It is not just about simplifying, but about finding that metaphor that ties everything together in a natural way and makes people think: “Now I get it!”

Both during my studies and through my professional experiences and personal projects, I have been able to “try many things and discover different ways of communicating science.” I have created posts and infographics for social media, given outreach and institutional talks, led guided tours in major scientific infrastructures and written articles in blog and magazine formats. I have even been able to create and manage websites from scratch using WordPress and Drupal, like this very portfolio/blog.

But I am a great lover of the video format, which is why it is what I have dedicated the most time to as a hobby. It is the most complete format: you have the closeness of voice and image, it allows you to use animations to visualise concepts that would otherwise be extremely difficult to convey, and it allows you to develop narratives from metaphors in a very natural way. It is the ideal medium for achieving that ‘Eureka’ moment that I value so highly as a science communicator.

Now that you know me a little better, I invite you to take a look at my portfolio. Or, if you prefer, you can go back to the blog-style front end of BeyondTheCMB. Although at the end of the day, it is just a more compact and slightly more public version of a portfolio…