Bas Haring
Sebastiaan Haring is a Dutch writer of popular science and children's literature, television presenter and professor. He is a full professor at Leiden University, where he has held 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 to the general public. Haring tries to make others think about simple and complex issues. To make his questions, positions and points of view clear, he is known for using humor, personal stories, and analogies between animals, people and computers.
Haring first achieved prominence with his 2001 children's book Cheese and the Theory of Evolution in which he explained evolution and its implications. The book received several awards and has been translated into ten different languages. His book For a Successful Life was published in 2008 by Beautiful Books Limited.
