Mar Gómez


María del Mar Gómez Hernández is a Spanish physicist, science communicator and popular science books author. She obtained her PhD cum laude at the Complutense University of Madrid with the thesis Análisis de las fuentes de humedad en la cuenca mediterránea en el período 1980–2000. She is an specialist in the fields of meteorology and renewable energies. She has contributed to National Geographic. In her work, she often talks about the climate change in the Arctic and its consequences. She is a member of United Nations' program Verified for Climate, which focuses on combating false information about climate change on social media. Since 2014 she has worked at as a meteorologist.
At an international level, she has been a speaker at TEDx talks and climate change awareness events. She is also known for being a popular science communicator on social media. Her work on environmental awareness, scientific communication and outreach has led her to be interviewed on numerous occasions.

Recognition

In 2024, she was awarded the I Premio Biotopías for her work on science communication.

Popular science books

  • En qué se parecen las gotas de lluvia al pan de hamburguesa: 120 curiosidades científicas relacionadas con la meteorología
  • Meteorosensibles: Cómo el tiempo influye en nuestra salud física y mental
  • Gota a gota: El gran viaje del agua