Pau was interviewed for Barcelona’s leading daily newspaper following the June publication of his Angewandte Chemie paper, describing work carried out with colleagues from the IRB, that describes a strategy to quickly and reversibly impair the function of specific proteins using light-regulated inhibitory peptides. The paper was among the 5% to be included in the ‘Very Important Paper’ section of the journal, and has also been extensively publicised in the press both here and abroad.