Christian Schwägerl is a Berlin-based journalist, author and biologist. After many years as a science and environment staff correspondent for Frankfurter Allgemeine Newspaper and DER SPIEGEL magazine, he now works as a freelance writer for GEO, Cicero and DIE ZEIT science magazine as well as other leading media. He is a past winner of the "Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism," and the "Econsense Journalism Award." Schwägerl is a co-creator and project leader of The Anthropocene Project, a three-year collaboration at Haus der Kulturen der Welt cultural center in Berlin.