If I got to be get here in the Arctic, their is maybe one main reason behind this: my endless passion for sciences. After a master degree in physics and mathematics at the small but familiar and very good University of Fribourg, I hesitated between teaching and doing something else. It was finaly something else, that was in back of my head for a while: explaining to as many people I could science as mysterious, fascinating and at the end as simple as it is. After two years learning the job of journalist at the local newspaper “La Liberté”, I spent two years as the Deputy Head of the Press office for the Swiss national science foundation. Which I left in 2004 to join the daily newspaper “Le TEMPS”, based in Geneva, which is the major french-speaking quality paper in Switzerland. I lead its Science section, and had the priviledge to see my contributions be reproduced in other famous newspapers such as “Le Monde” (France), “Le Soir” (Belgium), “Courrier International” (France), and “Neue Zürcher Zeitung” (Switzerland, german). Winner of different science journalism awards, I love to travel a lot around the world, on the tracks of all the scientist following the most nobel goal ever: try to understand the world we live in.

Olivier Dessibourg
Science Journalist
Le Temps, Geneva