P e t e r C a t a l a n o

Peter Catalano is a professional Web Producer, critic and journalist. His areas of expertise are science, technology and the fine arts. In recent years Mr. Catalano has parlayed his journalistic skills to producing Websites for high tech firms and medical practices. The sites he’s produced include satellite image processing software, cutting-edge stroke intervention and reversing comas with Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.

“There’s a critical need on the Web for people who understand science and technology”, says Catalano. “These ‘Web Producers’ as I call them must be exceedingly versatile --as fluent in genes and neurons as they are in audience demographics, and software/design concepts. With the Web now a maturing medium, the challenge is to communicate well organized ideas using visual images to a broader and broader public. That’s a role I have created for myself.”

As a professional writer and critic Peter Catalano’s career extends over a dozen years. His work has been published internationally in a number of prestigious magazines and newspapers. Science writings have appeared in Astronomy, Popular Science, Harvard magazine, The World & I magazine, and the Washington Times.

For the past three years Catalano’s interviews, features and essays have been published extensively in Japan’s Gakken Press science series which are edited (in translation) by Kiyoshi Yazawa. Topics Catalano’s engaged range from genetics and gene therapies to astrophysics and high-energy particle physics to evolutionary biology, advanced robotics, magnetoelectronics and artificial intelligence.

In his Gakken series Mr. Catalano has interviewed Nobel laureates Steven Weinberg, Walter Gilbert and David Hubel. These intensive dialogues are published in Q&A format. Other noted figures Catalano has spoken with for the Gakken series include Alan Guth, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Lewontin, Hans Moravec, J. Allan Hobson, Lee Silver, Noam Chomsky, Lynn Margulis and Dan Dennett, among dozens of other prominent scientists.

Since the late Eighties Peter Catalano has also written extensively about architecture and design; modern dance; and most prolifically, about classical music and opera. Much of his output can be found in the Los Angeles Times; the American Record Guide; Schwann-Opus, Stereophile, Audio-Video Interiors, Design Times and Musical America.

A graduate of Columbia University, Mr. Catalano holds a degree in Economics and Philosophy. He later studied Engineering Management at Boston University. He’s co-author of a National Science Foundation study on Robotic Assembly Systems, written by a team of engineers at MIT’s Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. Catalano also interned at IBM’s robotics division and later worked with a computer manufacturer in Massachusetts.