Giovanni Frazzetto
Giovanni Frazzetto grew up on the South-East coast of Sicily. After high school, he moved to the UK to study science at University College London and in 2002 he received a PhD from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg. In his work, Giovanni connects literature and science. He has contributed to the international magazines Nature and Science and has written for Haaretz, the Irish Times, the Financial Times, Village Magazine, the Huffingtom Post and Psychology Today.
In 2008, for his cross-disciplinary and science communication efforts he was awarded the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award. Giovanni loves the sea, cooking, multimedia storytelling, whistling and learning foreign languages. He is fluent in Italian, German and French, and has conversational Portuguese, Greek and Russian and basic Hebrew. He has started to learn Irish. He is not good at giving street directions.
He now lives in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.
In 2008, for his cross-disciplinary and science communication efforts he was awarded the John Kendrew Young Scientist Award. Giovanni loves the sea, cooking, multimedia storytelling, whistling and learning foreign languages. He is fluent in Italian, German and French, and has conversational Portuguese, Greek and Russian and basic Hebrew. He has started to learn Irish. He is not good at giving street directions.
He now lives in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland.
