Patrick Illinger

 Patrick Illinger, born in 1965, studied Physics in Munich. After a PhD on antimatter at the European research center CERN in Geneva, he turned to journalism. He completed a radio and television training at the German public TV/radio station ARD, where among other things he filmed a documentary about the war in Bosnia. He then worked as a science editor for the German news magazine Focus. In 1997 Illinger was hired by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the leading German daily paper, where he became the founding editor of sueddeutsche.de, the online edition of the SZ. In 2002 he was appointed head of the science desk at the Süddeutsche Zeitung.