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Neuroscientist and author of contemporary fiction.

Germán Sierra got his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain) before doing postdoctoral research in Cognitive Neuroscience at the Brain Research Institute in UCLA. He currently works at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
His scientific research work has been published in major Neuroscience and Neurology journals as well as in several Neuroscience and Neurology books both in English and Spanish.

As a writer, Germán Sierra is deeply interested in contemporary experimental fiction. He has been included among the “Mutantes” or “Afterpop writers”: a group of Spanish writers who are strongly committed with innovative literature. Most of his fictional work deals with metamediatics and the role of science and technology as cultural discourses in post-postmodern and posthuman societies.

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É filho de Marina Paredes Pérez e do bioquímico Germán Sierra Marcuño. Licenciouse em Medicina pola Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, onde trabalha dende 1989 (no departamento de Bioquímica e Bioloxía molecular).

Publicou em revistas científicas e culturais, como Revista das letras, Letras Libres ou Quimera (onde asinaba co alcume "Wireless"). Como novelista, a súa obra enmárcase dentro da chamada Generación Nocilla, Generación Mutante e Generación Afterpop da literatura espanhola.

É um dos autores antologados por Sergi Bellver na obra «Madrid, Nebraska. EE.UU en el relato español del siglo XXI» (Bartleby, 2014).

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Germán Sierra se licenció en medicina y cirugía por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, donde es profesor de bioquímica y biología molecular desde 1989. Ha publicado artículos científificos en revistas y monografías internacionales sobre su especialidad, la neurociencia, por lo que ha recibido premios a la investigación. Ha publicado las novelas El espacio aparentemente perdido (Debate, 1996), La felicidad no da el dinero (Debate, 1999) y Efectos secundarios (Debate ,2000), y el libro de relatos Alto voltaje (Literatura Mondadori, 2004).