Journalist, University of São Paulo

Mr Escobar is a professional journalist specialized in science and environment. He currently works at the University of São Paulo, as a special reporter for the Superintendence of Social Communication. Before that, for almost 20 years, he was a reporter for the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, with more than 2,000 reports published in print and digital format, on a wide variety of topics. Since January 2015 he has been an international contributor to the journal Science, in the United States.