Outreach: debates, press, TV, radio talks
XXXIII Annual Meeting, Alexander von Humboldt Spanish Association, Castellon, Spain (Sept 5, 2025). Presentation: Prof. Dr. Luis Antonio Oro Giral.
Radio Interview for the New Books Network, Blueshirt Group, an IR firm focused on technology. Aug 8, 2025: "The True Story of Modern Cosmology -- Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs". Hosted by Gregory McNiff.
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 1/7/25 "Eureka" moments in the History of Physics (III) -- On how Albert Einstein discovered general relativity and Lise Meitner managed to understand that atomic fission had really taken place (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 17/6/25 "Eureka" moments in the History of Physics (II) -- In this case, we will be talking about Ludwig Boltzmann, Max Planck and Albert Einstein, without any doubt three great geniuses of contemporary physics. (in Catalan)
YouTube Collection ``Vidas Ajenas''. Interview on my book: "The True Story of Modern Cosmology -- Origins, Main Actors and Breakthroughs". Hosted by Javi Rodríguez Godoy, 13 June 2025.
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 4/6/25 "Eureka" moments in the History of Physics (I) --A “eureka” moment is an extraordinarily happy situation, of profound intuitive inspiration. The construction of science over the centuries, until it reaches its current version, is marked by fascinating moments of this kind (in Catalan)
18th Barcelona Science Festival, May 31- June 1, 2025, Program: "What is Inteligence? Human, artificial, emotional, ..." (May 31, 2025). Outreach Talk (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 17/3/25 Albert Einstein's most brilliant thought -- Einstein himself explained in detail, on a couple of occasions, what had been the most fortunate idea he had ever had in his entire life (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 1/1/25 Parallel Universes -- Parallel universes are possible in various theories of physics. There is no evidence that they exist, but... The extraordinary story that happened a hundred years ago could be repeated one day (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 28/10/24 Knowing is not the same as understanding -- We all know that the Earth pulls us in with the force of gravity, but we still don't understand why (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 24/09/24 Challenges of cosmology and the anthropic principle -- What are we doing here? Would a Universe without us make sense? Are there other forms of intelligence apart from our own? (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 19/07/24 Who was the first to discover that the Universe is expanding and that it had an origin? -- Everything will depend on what we mean by ``discovering'' (in Catalan)
Radio Interview at Radio Santa Maria de Toledo, Programm "Luciérnagas": "On Einstein's visit to Spain in 1923" (February 13, 2024, in Spanish) Live broadcast
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 01/02/24 Galileo, Newton, Einstein, yes, but ... we still do not fully understand gravity! -- If the indications that the acceleration of the expansion of the universe is not constant are confirmed, we will be forced to revise our conception of gravity, given today by the general theory of relativity (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 16/01/24 The Relativistic Equivalence Principle for Skeptics and Disbelievers -- Gravity is a mysterious force that can be reduced to curvature of spacetime. However, it is a force like any other! (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 08/11/23 What is intelligence? -- The human, the collective, the emotional, that of living beings, the artificial one... Is there intelligence in the evolutionary process of species up to Homo sapiens? (in Catalan)
Deconstrucció social: Utopies i realitats, Vinaròs news, 18 octubre, 2023. Imatge: DIVULCAT, Emili Elizalde, 1 juliol 2022.
Radio Interview at Catalunya Radio, Programm "Night of the ignorants": "The origin and creation of the universe, an unsolvable mystery?" (June 20, 2023, in Catalan) Live broadcast, Saved copy
16th Barcelona Science Festival, June 10-11, 2023, Program (pg.3): "About infinity and how to tame it" (June 10, 2023). Outreach Talk (in Catalan)
Pint of Science Festival 22-24 May 2023 Leading discussion at Cafeteria La Pau, Barcelona: "Sobre el infinito y cómo domesticarlo". Outreach Talk (May 24, 2023; in Spanish)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 19/04/23 Relativistic essences -- We set out, in simple terms, the three main relativistic theories: Galileo's, Einstein's special and general theory, which show us the way towards a final theory of total relativity, for now unattainable (in Catalan)
Round Table: "Giving curiosity a voice" FCRi, AstroBarcelona, Divulcat (Mar 30, 2023, in Catalan) Contribution, Streaming
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 22/02/23 Historical and scientific contexts surrounding Einstein's visit to Catalonia -- What was happening in the world? What were his most relevant scientific activity at the time Einstein visited Spain? (in Catalan)
Press TOT Sant Cugat, 100 Years of Albert Einstein's visit to Sant Cugat (Feb 22, 2023, in Catalan) Interview
European Researcher's Night 2022, Barradas Auditorium, Hospitalet de Llobregat: "The Birth of the Universe" (Sep 28, 2022) Outreach Talk
XXIX Annual Meeting, Alexander von Humboldt Club, Leon, Spain (Sept 9, 2022) Presentation: Prof. Dr. Jörg Lahner and Dr. Alistair Adam-Hernandez
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 01/07/22 The Birth of the Universe -- It is necessary to avoid and above all to demystify terms such as "infinity" or "singularity" in the description of the cosmos (in Catalan)
15th Barcelona Science Festival, May 28-29, 2022, Rambla del Raval, Barcelona: "The Birth of the Universe" (May 29, 2022) Outreach Talk (in Catalan)
Participation at the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference 2022, Barcelona, 18-20 May 2022. By invitation.
OBREAL DAAD ea Global Debate: "Higher Education and the Sustainable Development Goals: Inter-regional perspectives", Barcelona University, 17 May 2022. By invitation.
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 15/10/21 On my book "The True Story of Modern Cosmology" -- Should research physicists write physics history books? (in Catalan)
European Researcher's Night 2021, Barradas Auditorium, Hospitalet de Llobregat: "The Origin of the Universe: let's talk about it" (Sep 21, 2021) Outreach Talk
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 15/09/21 A handful of reflections on the future (II) -- Fictions that could come true long before we think (in Catalan)
Participation Humboldt New Mobility Conference, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 13-14 September 2021. Online conference, by invitation
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 14/08/21 A handful of reflections on the future (I) -- From various sources, approaches and perspectives, complemented by personal notes (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 15/07/21 From the "preprint" to the web: on the origins of Cyberspace (II) -- A web tailored to a handful of physicists ended up revolutionizing universal society (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 15/06/21 From the "preprint" to the web: on the origins of Cyberspace (I) -- A brief historical tour (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 15/05/21 Of how on an inspired night Alan Guth discovered cosmic inflation: And solved all the problems of the old Big Bang model (in Catalan)
"Modern Cosmology" (in Spanish). Contribution to the list of 30 Sant Cugat writers. Sant Jordi's Day 23/04/21
Writers Signing Table: Participation with the book "Modern Cosmology" (in Spanish) Authors 17/04/21
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 15/04/21 The Awakening of Cosmic Consciousness (II): Cosmology is as old as human consciousness (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 14/03/21 A tribute to Stephen Hawking: From when I spent the night in the judge's room of St. Cross College, Oxford, and I had lunch right next to Stephen Hawking (in Catalan)
"O ceo é para tod@s" Interview 28/02/21 at 12:30 at the radio program "A noite é necesaria" (Radiovoz): Cosmoloxia Moderna, conversa con Emilio Elizalde (in Spanish)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 23/02/21 The Awakening of Cosmic Consciousness (I): The first conscious knowledge, eight hundred thousand years ago, was geometric (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 02/10/20 Genesis according to Science, in the New Millennium: There was no explosion at the origin of the Universe (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 21/07/20 The Cosmological Constant "... die grösste Eselei meines Lebens" (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 18/04/20 The Great Debate of 1920: “On the distance scale of the Univers” (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 23/03/20 A Toast to Pere Menal (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 14/02/20 A tale of harmony and mystery --On music and paradoxes, on the series that diverge, and zeta functions (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 07/11/19 The two cosmological revolutions of the 20th century --Our Universe expands and had an origin; even more so, the expansion of the Universe accelerates (in Catalan)
Pint of Science Festival 20-22 May 2019 Leading discussion at Bacanal Cafe, Barcelona: "What the hell is the Big Bang? Can you tell me?" (May 20, 2019; in Spanish)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 11/04/19 Towards the end of science? --Is there actually a problem with Physics? I would say no, no matter if some believe it (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 08/03/19 What it is, and what is not, a Scientific Theory --Hubble never believed that the Universe expands (in Catalan)
Humboldt Session in the framework of the Biannual Congress of the Spanish Mathematical Society RSME2019, Santander, Spain (Febr 7, 2019) Contribution: as Vice-President of AvH Spain
UAB Faculty of Communication Studies Radio interview: "The Big Bang: what is it and how it happened" (Dec 13, 2018; in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 14/11/18 The expansion of the Universe: Edwin Hubble, Georges Lemaître, Vesto Slipher –To the rescue of Vesto Slipher from oblivion (in Catalan)
UAB Faculty of Communication Studies Radio interview: "Black Holes: From fiction to reality" (Nov 16, 2018; in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 05/09/18 Surprisingly (or not) there are those who do understand Quantum Mechanics –About the meaning of the word ‘understand’ (in Catalan)
XXVII Annual Meeting, Alexander von Humboldt Club, Vigo, Spain (Sept 14, 2018) Presentation: Prof. Dr. Hans Burchard
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 20/03/18 A brief (but very essential) physics lesson --Llull, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Hawking: From phenomenology to the universal law (in Catalan)
Blog Divulcat: "With open eyes ..." Blog 13/02/18 Big Bang --The origins and the meaning of this concept (in Catalan)
Science Week 2017, UAB/ICE-CSIC: "The Universe and its origin ... in a few minutes" (Nov 15, 2017) Outreach Talk
UAB Faculty of Communication Studies Radio interview: "Mars and our future" (Nov 14, 2017; in Catalan)
XXVI Annual Meeting, Alexander von Humboldt Club, Malaga, Spain (Sept 15, 2017, in Spanish) Presentation at Opening Session: Prof. Dr. Pedro Echenique
Book AAvHE XXV Years, Chapter: Challenges in Cosmology and Theoretical Physics Research (Sept 2016, in Spanish)
XXV Annual Meeting, Alexander von Humboldt Club, Bergara and San Sebastian, Spain (Sept 16, 2016, in Spanish) Presentation at Closing Session: Prof. Dr. Nicanor Ursúa
Barcelona Seminar of Theology and Science, Interdisciplinary Debates at Borja Center, Sant Cugat (Febr 16, 2016, in Catalan) Opening Session: Does it make sense anymore to believe in God?
Program Science Capsels, TV3, "The origin of the Universe" (November 2014, in Catalan): Text , TV Broadcast
AASCV-STICB Interdisciplinary Forum-Debates 2014: The End of Life and the Universe (June 5, 2014, in Catalan) Talk The origin of Homo Sapiens (May 6, 2014) Moderator The origin of the Universe and Life (April 6, 2014) Moderator
UAB Divulga: "Replicas y Contrareplicas Cuanticas" (in Spanish, March, 2012) and in Catalan
Press Release TRUP (in Spanish, February, 2012) and in Catalan
Program tres14, TVE, "The limits of infinity" (Nov 27, 2011, in Spanish): TV Broadcast
System Failure, First Program, RNE Radio3: Parallel Universes (in Spanish, April 3, 2011): Broadcast
Press Release DCE, EFE and several newspapers (in Spanish, October, 2006) and in Catalan