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Antonio Martínez Ron

Antonio Martínez Ron (born 3 May 1976 in Madrid) is a Spanish journalist and scientific reporter. He's graduated in journalism from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has collaborated in different media such as Cadena SER, La2 and RNE. He is also responsible for the digital projects of scientific dissemination Naukas and Fogonazos. In 2015 he presented his first book "¿Qué ven los astronautas cuando cierran los ojos?" And in 2016 he published "El ojo desnudo".[1]

Antonio Martínez Ron
Born3 May 1976 Edit this on Wikidata
Madrid Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationWriter, science journalist Edit this on Wikidata

He has been awarded several prizes in recognition of his scientific work, such as the Bitácoras Awards or the 20Blog Awards. As director of the documentary El mal del cerebro, he won the 2013 Boehringer Award for best journalism work; This documentary received a review of the British magazine The Lancet.

Biography

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He holds a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and works as editor in the Science section of the digital newspaper Vozpopuli in April 2017.[2] He is also an active contributor to Quo magazine and the program "I give you my word" (Spanish: Te doy mi palabra) on the radio channel Onda Cero. Between 2009 and 2011 he worked as chief editor of science in lainformación.com.[1]

In September 2003 he published the blog Fogonazos, where he writes a compilation of his "daily astonnments", articles on science, curiosities and current impressions of the same.[1]

In La 2 de Televisión Española (transl. Spanish Television) he presented the section The demonstration (Spanish: La demostración, a space designed to explain concepts of physics, chemistry and neuroscience through simple experiments, in the program Orbita Laika, presented by Ángel Martín.[1]

On 28 December 2009, he published in Fogonazos an article entitled National Geographic destapa el fraude de Stonehenge. In it he claimed that 90% of the stones of Stonehenge had been placed in successive "restorations", that is to say, a montage. He accompanied this article with photographic evidence and narrated how archaeologist Mike Parker Pearson had discovered that several of the dolerite rocks contained a variety of feldspar that had nothing to do with those located in Perseli, where the oldest megaliths were extracted. What was a joke for the day of the innocent took immediate relevance internationally and National Geographic had to intervene to deny it.[3]

He is one of the creators of Naukas, an online scientific outreach platform, in which he is also a publisher. It has been active since 2010 and has more than 150 collaborators, mostly scientists and disseminators. This network has held outreach events in cities such as A Coruña[4] and Bilbao.[5]

In 2014 he created together with Javier Peláez and Javier Álvarez the radio project "Ultraviolet Catastrophe". This series of programs seeks to promote science through various fields of knowledge, showing experiments and speaking with their creators.[6] He also published his first book, ¿Qué ven los astronautas cuando cierran los ojos? (transl. What see the astronauts when they close the eyes?, a compilation of more than fifty stories published in the Fogonazos blog. It deals with topics such as astronaut experiences and neuroscience stories. It is also available for free in electronic version.[7]

In 2016 he published The Naked Eye (Crítica, Drakontos Collection), a reconstruction of the history of science from the understanding of vision and light, through a critical vision, storytelling and illustration of scientific experiments.[8]

In 2017 the Academia de las Ciencias y las Artes de Televisión of Spain grants to him the Scientific Journalism Award Concha García Campoy in the category of Digital Press for the article Plasticidad a la carta para salvar cerebros.[9][10]

Work

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El mal del cerebro

He directed the documentary El mal del cerebro, which reviews major research on the treatment of brain diseases and improved mental performance.[11]

In the first part of this documentary, Brains repaired, Martinez Ron attends an electrode implant operation for the recovery of mobility and elimination of compulsive tremor in Parkinson's patients. Shows the latest advances in technology to replace limbs amputated by bionic devices or move objects with thought.[11]

In the second part, In search of memory, talks about the new methods of investigation to try to detect early dementia and to stop the cognitive deterioration, it is looked for how to retain the memories the maximum possible time.[11]

In the third part, Trastornos de la mente, presents some disorders of the mind as the ezquizophrenia, the syndrome of Gilles de la Tourette, a case of amnesia by brain damage and several patients with aphasia triggered by cerebrovascular accidents.[12]

Books

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  • "¿Qué ven los astronautas cuando cierran los ojos?" (2014)[13]
  • "El ojo desnudo" (2016)[14]
  • "Door" (2017)[15]

Periodicals

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  • Editor in the Science section of Vozpopuli.com.[16]
  • Creator of Fogonazos and Naukas.[17]
  • Contributor in Yahoo!,[18] Jot Down[19] and the magazine Quo.[20]
  • Ex-editor in the Science section of lainformacion.com.[21]
  • Ex-editor in ADN.es.[21]

Media

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  • Director of the documentary El mal del cerebro.[22]
  • Collaborator of Orbit Laika (TVE) in the section "The demonstration" during 2 seasons.[23]
  • Collaborator in Onda Cero's "Te doy mi palabra" program.[24]
  • Creator of the podcast Catástrofe ultravioleta.[6]

Awards

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  • Boehringer Award for Medical Journalism 2013.[20]
  • Prismas 2012 Award.[25]
  • Bitácoras Award 2010 and 2011.[26]
  • 20Blogs 2007[27] and 2008.[28]
  • Blasillo Award to the ingenuity in Internet 2012.[29]
  • Scientific Journalism Award Concha García Campoy 2017.[10]
  • Ondas Award to the podcast Catástrofe Ultravioleta 2017.[30]

References

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  2. ^ "Noticias de ciencia y tecnología – Next – Vozpópuli | El valor de ser libres". Vozpópuli (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  3. ^ Flores, Pepe (1 April 2010). "El día que Antonio Martínez Ron engañó al mundo". Hipertextual (in European Spanish). Retrieved 17 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Los Museos Científicos impulsan la jornada de divulgación Naukas Coruña 2017, que se celebrará en el Teatro Rosalía el 25 de febrero". Ayuntamiento de A Coruña/Concello da Coruña (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Proyecto: El ladrón de cerebroswebsite=eitb.eus" (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  6. ^ a b "Quiénes somos". Catástrofe Ultravioleta (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  7. ^ Guardiola, Javi (2 May 2014). "Reseña: ¿Qué ven los astronautas cuando cierran los ojos?". Meditaciones Dactilares. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  8. ^ "Reseña: "El ojo desnudo" de Antonio Martínez Ron | Ciencia". La Ciencia de la Mula Francis. 19 November 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  9. ^ "Vozpópuli gana el premio Concha García Campoy por su labor en el periodismo científico". Vozpópuli (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  10. ^ a b "El jurado elige a los ganadores de los III Premios de Periodismo Científico Concha García Campoy | AcademiaTV". www.academiatv.es (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 June 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
  11. ^ a b c Diximedia. "Presentamos 'El mal del cerebro', un documental sobre los desafíos de la mente del siglo XXI". lainformacion (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  12. ^ "El mal del cerebro: tercera parte". Naukas. 27 March 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  13. ^ "¿Qué ven los astronautas cuando cierran los ojos?". lanzanos.com. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  14. ^ El ojo desnudo (in European Spanish).
  15. ^ Ron, Antonio Martinez; Seijas, David Cuence (1 July 2017). Door. S. L. 3 Pintamonas (1 ed.). ISBN 9788494381249.
  16. ^ "Antonio Martínez Ron - Vozpópuli". Vozpópuli (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  17. ^ "aberron – Naukas". Naukas (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 January 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  18. ^ "Ilusión auditiva: comprueba cómo tu cerebro convierte la repetición en música" (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  19. ^ "Antonio Martínez Ron, Autor en Jot Down Cultural Magazine". Jot Down Cultural Magazine (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  20. ^ a b "Antonio Martínez Ron (Fogonazos), premio Boehringer". Quo. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  21. ^ a b "Antonio Martínez Ron". Ciencia en redes (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  22. ^ "El mal del Cerebro, un documental de Antonio Martínez Ron|La mecánica del caracol | EITB Audios". www.eitb.eus (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  23. ^ Órbita Laika – ¡El experimento de Antonio Martínez Ron funciona!, Órbita Laika – RTVE.es A la Carta (in European Spanish), 1 February 2015, retrieved 18 April 2017
  24. ^ "Antonio Martínez Ron nos cuenta por qué vemos lo que vemos, en su libro 'El ojo desnudo". ondacero.es (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  25. ^ "Antonio Martínez Ron – RTVE.es". RTVE.es (in European Spanish). 2 December 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  26. ^ "Escuela Bitácoras. Da curso a tus pasiones". Escuela Bitácoras (in European Spanish). Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  27. ^ "Premios 20Blogs 2007 – Segunda edición – 20minutos.es". La Blogoteca. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  28. ^ 20Minutos (18 December 2008). "Premio al Mejor Blog de Actualidad – Ganadores en los premios 20 Blogs – 20minutos.es". 20minutos.es – Últimas Noticias. Retrieved 18 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  29. ^ Carlos, Idoia de (14 March 2012). "Antonio Martínez Ron, ganador del Premio Blasillo 2012: "La especialización es la asignatura pendiente del periodismo"". Huesclick. Retrieved 18 April 2017.
  30. ^ "Premios Ondas". premiosondas.com. Archived from the original on 8 March 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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