Ramon Guardans

Born in 1950, he graduated in Biology from the University of Barcelona and worked at the Chemical Physics Department of the Free University of Brussels from 1978 to 1983, collaborating with R. Margalef, Ilya Prigogine, S. Pahaut, K.Chemla and F.Bray, among others. From 1983 to 1987, he worked as a scientist at the Environmental Protection Service of the Catalan Regional Government in Barcelona. From 1987 to 2000 he worked at the Institute of Radiological Protection and formed part of the ecotoxicology research group into air pollution at the Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT) of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Madrid. Since 1993, he has served as Vice President of the Working Group on Effects (LRTAP) at the United Nations and he has been a member of GESAMP. He collaborated as scientific advisor in the early work of La Fura dels Baus, and with the artists Sergio Caballero and Marcelli Antúnez. He is currently working on the »Algorithmic Echolocation project« being developed by the ZKM in Karlsruhe, MediaLabMadrid and Soundplots.
 
[Last update: 2000]