Youssef El Baba is an author and an artist. He graduated from the renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) in 2015, obtaining an engineering degree in communication systems, after which he has worked in acoustics research in a scientific setting in Germany. His writing focuses on non-fiction, namely on the topic of his own abstract calligraphy drawing style, and on the topic of self-management in the information age.