Education
Utrecht University.
Utrecht University.
Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring / Professor.dr. He"s a full professor at Leiden University where he holds a chair in “public understanding of science” since 2007. He also hosted his own philosophical tv-program for Dutch public broadcasting.
In his work his aims are to make science more accessible for a general public.
Haring tries to make others think about simple and complex issues. To make his questions, positions and point of views clear, he"s known for using humor, personal stories, and analogies between animals, people and computers.
The book received several awards and has been translated into ten different languages. His book Foreign a Successful Life was published in 2008 by Beautiful Books Limited (United Kingdom).