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 journalistic career in 1983, first at various publishing houses, then in radio and television. In 1987, he became an editor at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne and later headed 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 writes regular articles for leading newspapers and is a welcome expert on numerous talk shows. His books ‘Sonst noch Fragen?’ (Any more questions?), ‘Ach so!’ (Oh, I see!) and ‘Nächste Ausfahrt Zukunft’ (Next exit: the future) quickly became bestsellers and have been translated into numerous languages.

Yogeshwar has received over 60 specialist awards and has been honoured many times, for example with 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 four children and lives with his family near Cologne.