Ranga Yogeshwar

Ranga Yogeshwar was born in Luxembourg in 1959, the son of an Indian engineer and a Luxembourgish artist. He spent most of his early childhood in India. After graduating from high school in Luxembourg, he studied experimental elementary particle physics and astrophysics and worked at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Research (SIN), CERN in Geneva and the Jülich Research Centre.

Ranga Yogeshwar began his career as a journalist in 1983, initially at various publishing houses, then in radio and television. In 1987, he became an editor at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne and later became head of the science department. Ranga Yogeshwar has been working as an independent journalist and author since 2008. He is one of Germany's leading science journalists and has developed and presented numerous TV programmes, including ‘Kopfball’ (ARD), ‘Quarks&Co’ (WDR) and ‘Die große Show der Naturwunder’ (ARD). Yogeshwar regularly contributes to leading newspapers and is a popular expert on numerous talk shows. His books ‘Sonst noch Fragen?’, ‘Ach so!’ and ‘Nächste Ausfahrt Zukunft’ quickly became bestsellers and have been translated into numerous languages.

Yogeshwar has received over 60 specialist awards and has been honoured with numerous awards, including an honorary doctorate from the University of Wuppertal, the Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg.

Ranga Yogeshwar is the father of 4 children and lives with his family near Cologne.