Florian Freistetter

Florian Freistetter (born 28 July 1977) is an Austrian astronomer, blogger, non-fiction writer, podcaster and science communicator from Krems, who studied at the University of Vienna. He writes the German-language blog Astrodicticum Simplex and hosts the podcasts Sternengeschichten, Das Universum and Das Klima. His books include Eine Geschichte des Universums in 100 Sternen and Krawumm! Ein Plädoyer für den Weltuntergang, and he is a member of the Science Busters. He received the IQ Award in 2012, and his Mastodon account, astrodicticum@chaos.social, had 6,688 followers in April 2024.