Matheus Schutz
President and Co-founder
B.Sc, Ph.D Student, Biomedical Engineering
Since the beginning of his undergraduate degree in biochemistry, Matheus was always interested in science communication. During his graduate studies, he started venturing into the world of science communication by posting sporadically on an Instagram page titled “Scientist with a Laser”, where he shared a few of his experiments and the daily life in the laboratory.
Soon after starting his Instagram page, he was approached by Philippe Carle to start the science podcast “Orders of Magnitude”, where Matheus and Philippe interviewed scientists, graduate students, and talked about scientific topics that fascinated them the most. However, the podcast didn’t seem like enough.
Matheus truly believed that more scientists had to communicate the science that they do, in an attempt to render science more approachable and understandable. In an effort to encourage scientists to share their work with the general public, Matheus started the Orders of Magnitude initiative with Philippe Carle.
Matheus hopes the Orders of Magnitude will render science more accessible and make scientists more motivated to get involved in different social platforms to talk about their work.
SciComm Content Produced by Matheus
Podcast Episodes
Matheus started the Orders of Magnitude podcast, as well as the À Toute Échelle podcast and hosted several episodes.
Listen to the most recent episodes below, or visit the podcast page available on all platforms:
Blog Posts
Why Are Humans Made of So Many Atoms?
If someone asked me why humans are made of so many atoms, I’d usually answer that it is “because you just need that many atoms to reach the level of complexity that a human body has.” However, that answer barely rephrases the initial question. If someone asked you, “Why do monkeys like bananas,” they would be pretty disappointed if you said that it is because they think bananas taste good. Schrödinger, of course, did a way better job answering the question.
Why scientists should share their work on social media.
Both scientists and the general public can benefit from an increased presence of scientists on social media. Here we briefly discuss some of these benefits.