Ángel Rodríguez Lozano is a Spanish radio journalist and popularizer of science, best known as the creator and presenter of the program

Vanguardia de la Ciencia ''Vanguardia de la Ciencia'' was a Spanish science podcast and radio program which was broadcast on the shortwave band by Radio Exterior de España, one of the stations of Radio Nacional de España (RNE). The program aired weekly, without interr ...

, which was broadcast without interruption every week from April 1995 until June 2007. Before the startup of Vanguardia de la Ciencia, he participated in other programs in

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. He has also contributed to other programs of popular science, ''El Mono Temático'', ''En Clave de Ciencia de Radio 5'', and ''Hora América''. From August 2006 to June 2007, he also wrote and presented the program

El Sueño de Arquímedes El Sueño de Arquímedes was a Spanish science podcast and radio program which was broadcast by Radio Nacional de España (RNE) from September 2006 until June, 2007. The program was created by Ángel Rodríguez Lozano. A total of 35 programs ar ...

. Ángel Rodríguez Lozano was born in 1952 in the small municipality of

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, near Mérida in

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. He is a physicist by training, and has done research work in fluid dynamics, chaos theory and non-linear phenomena at the

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. Ángel Rodríguez Lozano has stated that he enjoys popularizing science, because the effort that is required to present a scientific topic helps him put the concepts straight, and gain a deeper understanding of the subject matter. Ángel Rodríguez Lozano left Radio Nacional in June, 2007, because of a re-structuration of the company, which involved the early retirement of employees older than 52 years.

cienciaes.com

In 2009, Ángel Rodríguez launched the web site "cienciaes.com" (Ciencia para escuchar - science for listening). The site contains audio files about science. It is divided into the sections "Hablando con cientificos" (interviews with scientists), "ciencia y genios" (biographies of scientists), "zoo de fosiles" (paleontology), "la ciencia nuestra de cada dia" (the science of everyday phenomena) and "Ulises y la ciencia" (reflections on scientific themes). In addition, some episodes of ''Vanguardia de la Ciencia'' and ''El sueno de Arquimedes'', previously aired by RNE, are available for download. All the contents of Cienciaes.com are licensed under a

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References

External links

* Web site of Vanguardia de la Ciencia: http://www.rtve.es/programas/vanguardia * Web site of El Sueño de Arquímedes: http://www.rtve.es/programas/cienciaytecnologia * Vanguardia de la Ciencia at eSnips: http://www.esnips.com/web/VanguardiaDeLaCiencia * Ciencia para escuchar: http://cienciaes.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez Lozano, Angel 1952 births Spanish radio journalists Spanish physicists Science and technology in Spain Living people