Stefan Klein

Stefan Klein (born 1965, Munich, West Germany) is a German physicist, author and essayist, who has specialized in writing on science. He studied physics and analytical philosophy in Munich, Grenoble and Freiburg and graduated in biophysics. After some years in academic research he started a new career as a science writer. From 1996 to 1999 he was a science editor at the German news magazine Der Spiegel. In 1998 he won the Georg-von-Holtzbrinck-Preis for science journalism. Stefan Klein is in demand as a keynote speaker, too. He has lectured at the Universities of Heidelberg, Freiburg, UdK Berlin, Cottbus, Barcelona and Cambridge. Stefan Klein lives as a freelance author in Berlin.