Sonia Fernández-Vidal (Barcelona, ​​1978) holds a PhD in information and quantum optics from the UAB. She is also a writer and science communicator.

She grew up in Mataró, in the Palau neighborhood. She attended the Angela Bransuela School, where her father worked as a teacher. "I had a great time, I loved learning. I was one of those kids who loves school." She immediately became interested in science. "I remember waiting in the library for my father to finish work, and when I was very young, a book fell into my hands: Bibliography of scientists. It was for children and was illustrated by Pilarín Bayés, with whom I would later make a book when I grew up. These things of destiny... And I remember that it had a huge impact on me, because I thought, what important people. And from then on, I said: I want to be a scientist."

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