Jorge Abreu-Vicente, PhD

I'm an astrophysicist who spent years mapping the birthplaces of stars — cold molecular clouds, filamentary structures, the quiet violence of star formation. Then I moved into bioinformatics and AI, building tools to help scientists read the literature at a scale no human could manage alone.

Writing found me sideways. A panic disorder that I didn't see coming forced me to slow down, to look inward with the same rigour I'd applied to the sky. Morgenrot — 'morning red' in German, the glow before dawn — is the book that came out of that. It is a memoir about anxiety, about the science of recovery, and about what it means to come back to yourself.

Permafrost is something different: a science fiction story that grew out of watching the world react to 3I/ATLAS. The same object, the same orbital data — and yet people saw in it whatever they most feared or most wanted. That gap between evidence and belief is the territory I'm trying to explore.

Both projects are published in public as they're written. I believe in the Andy Weir model: write the thing, share it free, let readers shape it. If you've found your way here, I'm glad.