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Polo & Rossi

Biography

Toni Polo and Sergio Rossi were at school together from the age of three to 18 at the Italian Scuola and the Liceo in Barcelona.

The outlook they share has led them to write together both Medusa, published in 2007 by Plaza y Janés in Barcelona.

In 2010 they published a second novel featuring the same characters and based on Antarctic issues, entitled El cementerio de Icebergs (The Cementery of Icebergs), and they are working on a third thriller, on the dubious business deals and the mafias spawned by the red-coral trade.

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Toni Polo Bettonica [The writer and journalist]

He was born in Barcelona in 1969 and is a journalist. After graduating in Contemporary History at the Geography and History Department of the University of Barcelona, he obtained a Master's degree in Journalism through the course run by the daily newspaper El País in conjunction with the Autonomous University of Madrid. He then went on to make contributions to various media concerns.

Such as that same newspaper El País, the radio station Cadena Ser (Radio Barcelona), and other media channels such as the magazine Penthouse and the magazine El Pipiripao. He was a founder member of the editing team for the newspaper 20 minutos Barcelona.

He was the author of the restaurants guide Comer bien en Barcelona (Eating Well in Barcelona), published by El País-Aguilar.

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Sergio Rossi Heras [The scientist]

He is Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Environmental Sciences and Technology Institute of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), following more than fifteen years spent at the Marine Sciences Institute of Barcelona (CSIC).

Born in 1969 in Barcelona, he is half Italian and half Spanish, has a doctorate in Biology from the University of Barcelona, and is a consummate observer of nature.

He specialises in marine biology, and has been a member of a number of scientific expeditions taking him all over the world: the Antarctic, California, Réunion island, Chile and other destinations.

He is involved in various scientific projects, such as Eurogel (a European project studying the impact of jellyfish on fisheries and tourism), Filant and Climant (national projects seeking to gain a better understanding of communities of organisms in the Antarctic), Censor (looking at the impact of the 'El Niño' phenomenon on ecosystems) and the management of Protected Marine Areas and resources such as red coral.

He has published papers in a number of specialist research journals, and makes contributions as a reporter and photographer to various media featuring popular-science news (Público, Quercus, GEO, El País, La Vanguardia, Investigación y Ciencia, Muy Interesante and Inmersión, among others).