Holger Wormer
Holger Wormer (* 1969 ) is a German science journalist and university lecturer for journalism.
Life
Wormer had been a freelance journalist since 1986, initially for the Rheinische Post newspaper . He then worked as a freelancer and in internships for PM Magazin and PM-Perspektive. He also worked for Südwestfunk (television), in public relations for the science publisher Verlag Chemie (today Wiley-VCH Verlag ), the German Press Agency (dpa) and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . During this time, Wormer received grants from the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie .
Between 1989 and 1995 he studied chemistry and a minor in philosophy in Heidelberg, Ulm and Lyon. In 1995 he passed his diploma examination at the University of Ulm with a thesis on "Global Pollutant Flows in the Atmosphere" with the analytical chemist Karlheinz Ballschmiter . Between February 1996 and November 2004, Wormer was an editor in the science department of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His focus during this time was on medicine, genetic engineering, research ethics and bioethics and chemistry and the environment.
Since 2004 he has been Professor of Journalism at the University of Dortmund . He is also a member of the jury for the Hofschneider Research Prize of the Zurich Foundation for Experimental Biomedicine .
Prizes and awards
- Prize of the Friedrich Deich Foundation
- Bavarian Academy Award for Addiction Issues
- Science book of the year 2012 (Austria) with Michael Dietz, category natural science and technology , for “Finally confidante!”
Web links
- Literature by and about Holger Wormer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage of Wormer at the University of Dortmund
- English homepage of Wormer with list of publications
- Page about Wormer in "Network Research"
supporting documents
- ↑ Peter Hans Hofschneider Research Prize for Science and Medical Journalism , Foundation for Experimental Biomedicine, accessed July 28, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wormer, Holger |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |