{{short description|German science writer (born 1973)}} {{Multiple issues| {{COI|date=July 2016}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2016}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Bas Kast | image = Maischberger - 2019-04-03-7320.jpg | birth_name = Bas Kast | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1973|01|16}} | education = European School Munich | occupation = Author <br /> Journalist | employer = Tagesspiegel }}

'''Bas Kast''' (born 1973 in Landau, residence in Rottendorf) is a German-Dutch science writer. He studied psychology and biology at the University of Konstanz<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.zeit.de/wissen/gesundheit/2018-02/gesunde-ernaehrung-altern-sport-bas-kast|title=Gesunde Ernährung: Ich wollte mich selbst heilen|last=Kast|first=Bas|date=2018-03-06|work=Die Zeit|access-date=2018-03-09|language=de-DE|issn=0044-2070}}</ref> and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<ref name=":0" /> Working as a freelancer first for the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit<ref name=":0" /> and other magazines, he later became an editor and reporter for the Berlin-based newspaper Der Tagesspiegel.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.eurosciencestiftung.de/preistraeger_e.html|title=Laureates|website=www.eurosciencestiftung.de|publisher=Euroscience Stiftung|access-date=2018-03-09}}</ref> His articles have earned him a number of national and international prizes.<ref name=":1" />{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} Kast has written several popular science books, some of which became best selling books that have been translated in numerous languages.{{citation needed|date=July 2016}}

==Articles (English)== * "Decisions, decisions...", Nature, 2001 May 10;411(6834):126-8. * "The best supporting actors", Nature, 2001 Aug 16;412(6848):674-6.

==Awards== * Axel-Springer-Preis 2002 for the article "What is Empathy?"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sciencegarden.de/content/2003-08/auf-der-suche-nach-dem-mitgef%C3%BChl|title=Auf der Suche nach dem Mitgefühl {{!}} sciencegarden - Magazin für junge Forschung|date=2012-07-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717011558/http://www.sciencegarden.de/content/2003-08/auf-der-suche-nach-dem-mitgef%C3%BChl|access-date=2018-03-09|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 July 2012}}</ref> * European Science Writers Award 2006<ref name=":1" /> * freshwater snail ''Tylomelania baskasti'' is named in honor of Bas Kast<ref name="Rintelen 2008">von Rintelen T. & Glaubrecht M. (2008). "Three new species of the freshwater snail genus ''Tylomelania'' (Caenogastropoda: Pachychilidae) from the Malili lake system, Sulawesi, Indonesia". ''Zootaxa'' '''1852''': 37-49. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01852p049.pdf PDF].</ref>

==Books== * Revolution im Kopf (2003) * Die Liebe und wie sich Leidenschaft erklärt (2004) * Wie der Bauch dem Kopf beim Denken hilft (2007) * Lauras Schweigen (2011) [Novel published using the alias Niels Nefarius] * Ich weiß nicht, was ich wollen soll (2012) * Und plötzlich macht es KLICK! (2015) * Der Ernährungskompass. Das Fazit aller wissenschaftlichen Studien zum Thema Ernährung. (2018) * Der Ernährungskompass – Das Kochbuch. (2019) * Das Buch eines Sommers. Werde, wer du bist. (2020) * Kompass für die Seele. Das Fazit neuester Studien zu Resilienz und innerer Stärke, C. Bertelsmann Verlag, München (2023)

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