Candela Antón

Exploration question

Why is it important to communicate science to young children and the adults who care for them? And how can we do it effectively? What tools might we need to develop to make science meaningful and accessible to them?

Candela Antón is a science communicator and anthropologist-in-training based in Catalonia, Spain, currently completing her degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution. Her work centres on making science (and particularly human evolution) feel less like a distant discipline and more like a shared, everyday language, especially at the intersection of scientific knowledge and lived experience, which involves topics like alloparenting, ordinary rituals, all kinds of bias and identity. She is the creator of Desenterrando el Pasado, a video podcast produced with National Geographic and the Palarq Foundation, and the founder of MPATHY, a science communication and funding platform connecting researchers with the public. Her writing appears in outlets including El Salto, El Orden Mundial, and Ajoblanco, and she regularly collaborates with RTVE and Cadena SER.

Candela is the author of “¿Y ahora qué?” (Penguin Random House) and one new book, exploring social technologies, still to be released. Also, she reaches over 1.7 million followers across social media as @candeliousfang. Before all this, she trained in theatre, acting, and voice, a background that still shapes how she tells stories nowadays. But above all, she is a mother learning anthropology in real time, one question at a time, such as her little daughter.