Michael Gross (science writer)

Michael Gross (3 November 1963, Kirn, Germany) is a British science writer based at Oxford and has been awarded an honorary research fellowship at the School of Crystallography, Birkbeck, University of London.

[1][2] Gross studied engineering and chemistry at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and he holds a doctorate in physical biochemistry from Regensburg University, both German institutions.

[2] During seven years of post-doctoral research in protein biochemistry at the University of Oxford, he wrote science journalism as a hobby.

[2] Gross is the author of around 30 research papers, over 700 journalistic pieces, and seven books, including Life on the Edge,[1] Travels to the Nanoworld, and Light and Life.

He writes in English and German and parts of his work have been translated into French, Spanish and Italian.