University master's degrees
University Master's Degree in History of Science: History, Heritage and Scientific Communication New

An opportunity to explore the historical and social dimensions of science. We teach you how to carry out historical research and apply it to the professional fields of heritage and scientific communication

Official Master's Degree in History of Science: History, Heritage and Scientific Communication

Course coordinator

Jaume Sastre Juan

Jaume.Sastre@uab.cat; coordinacio.master.hciencia@uab.cat

Coordination commitee

Jaume Sastre Juan (UAB), Jaume.Sastre@uab.cat

Jesús Galech (UB), jesus.galech@ub.edu

Clara Florensa (IMF-CSIC), clara.florensa@imf.csic.es

Daniele Cozzoli (UPF), daniele.cozzoli@upf.edu

Teaching staff

The master's dregree faculty includes most of the specialists in the history of science in Barcelona and its metropolitan area, from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Barcelona, the Pompeu Fabra University and the Milà and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

 

Lecturers

Acosta Rizo, Carlos (carlos.acosta@eug.es)

Professor at Gimbernat University School (Sant Cugat del Vallès). His teaching and research interests focus on transdisciplinary approaches in science and the humanities, covering history and dissemination of scientific and natural heritage; history of Earth and life sciences; medical humanities; science and gender perspective; and scientific research methodology.

 

Arrizabalaga Valbuena, Jon (jonarri@imf.csic.es)

A historian of medicine and science, and a research professor at the Milà and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona. Author or editor of numerous monographs, edited volumes, and monographic dossiers, he has published over one hundred articles and book chapters on the cultural history and historiography of disease; education, practice, and care in European medicine during the Ancient Régime; the world of medical and scientific books in the early printing press; emerging diseases, biomedicine, and global health from a historical perspective; and medicine, humanitarianism, and war in the contemporary world (1850–1950), from a transnational perspective and with particular attention to the Spanish case. In this last area, he has led the research group Medical Humanitarianisms since 2006. He is a professor of the university master's programs in History of Science (UAB-UB-UPF-CSIC, since 1989), and in Medical Anthropology and Global Health (URV-CSIC, since 2002).

 

Balltondre, Mònica (Monica.Balltondre@uab.cat)

Associate professor in the Faculty of Psychology and researcher at the Institute for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research focuses on female subjectivities constructed by past scientific theories. She has studied mediaeval spiritual women and spiritualism and spiritism from the early 20th century, primarily in Spain. She had a post-doc and visiting grant at the History of Science and Technology and Epistemology program of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (HCTE-UFRJ), at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine and Society (CSTMS) of the University of California at Berkeley and at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro (Fiocruz).

 

Calvo Labarta, M. Emilia (ecalvo@ub.edu)

Professor of Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Barcelona (UB). She teaches Arabic language, Arabic translation techniques, and Islamic thought and science. Her research focuses on medieval Arabic astronomical instruments, science and religion, astronomy and astrology, and scientific lexicography. She is a member of the SCIENTIA research group on “Premodern Scientific Texts from the Mediterranean Region.” She participates in the ASARGAFIL research project (“Social Aspects in Medieval Arabic Astrological Sources: Their legacy and discontinuity in the Greek Tradition”). She is a full member of the International Academy of the History of Sciences (since 2010) and a member of the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology (a branch of the Institute for Catalan Studies) since its founding. She has been co-director of the UB's Master's program in “Arab and Islamic World” since its inception in 2007.

 

Carandell Baruzzi, Miquel (Miquel.Carandell@uab.cat)

With a degree in biology, a master’s degree in history of science and a PhD in history of science, he is currently Serra Húnter professor at the History of Medicine Unit of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. During his career he has published articles and edited special issues in indexed journals such as History of Science, Public Understanding of Science or Centaurus, and has published the academic book The Orce Man. Controversy, media and politics in Human Origins Research (Brill, 2022). He has also carried out research stays at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and at the National Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon. He has also published popularization pieces and four books: Barcelona, ​​ciència i coneixement (Albertí, 2017), De les gàbies als espais oberts. Història i futur del Zoo de Barcelona (Alpina, 2018), El taxidermista de la plaça Reial (Alpina, 2021) and Debates y fraudes. Controversias en evolución humana (Salvat, 2023). It is worth highlighting his work as an editor at the magazine UAB Divulga (2011-2012); his work in the development and implementation of science history routes in Barcelona (2014-2019); the international Historical Archives Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation (2015), the research grant from the Museum of History of Hospitalet de Llobregat (2016); the Uriach Prize for the History of Medicine (2017); the Montserrat Roig scholarship (2018), and the Joan Camps prize (2020). He has also worked at the Granollers Natural Sciences Museum as head of the library and archive.

 

Casulleras Closa, Josep (jcasulleras@ub.edu)

Philologist and historian of science, he is an expert in Arab and Islamic studies. He has taught subjects in the history of science, history of Islamic societies, language, translation and literature in the degree in Arabic and Hebrew Studies at the University of Barcelona (UB). His research focuses on astronomy, mathematics applied to astrology and engineering in medieval society. He is a member of the SCIENTIA research group on "Premodern scientific texts in the Mediterranean area". He has published in prestigious media and has been a guest speaker at several specialized conferences. He is a member of several scientific societies in which he has held management positions.

 

Catanzaro, Michele (Michele.Catanzaro@uab.cat)

Journalist specialized in science, environment, health and technology, lecturer at the Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and researcher at the Institute for the History of Science (iHC-UAB). He has a PhD in physics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and is co-author of the book Networks: A very short introduction (Oxford University Press, 2014). He coordinates the PerCientEx project on good practices in scientific journalism in Ibero-America. He has participated in the European project ENJOI (Engagement and Journalism Innovation for Outstanding Open Science Communication). In the 2014-2015 academic year he was a journalist-in-residence at the Institute for Theoretical Studies in Heidelberg and in 2023 he was Nature-Marsilius guest professor at the University of Heidelberg. He has collaborated with media such as Nature, Science and El Periódico de Catalunya, among others. His work has been recognized by international awards and he has received scholarships from various organizations.

 

Cirac-Claveras, Gemma (Gemma.Cirac@uab.cat)

With a PhD in history of science from the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris), she has worked at the Alexandre Koyré Centre (Paris), the National Centre for Space Studies (Toulouse), the Pierre Simon Laplace Institute (Paris), the National Air Space Museum (Washington DC) the Paris-Est University (Marne), the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), among other institutions. She is an expert in the history of satellite remote sensing technology. Her research focuses on the imbricated techniques, knowledge, practices, institutions, networks and ideas involved in the production, circulation and use of data generated with Earth-orbiting satellites, and the power relations they articulate, as well as their environmental, social and political implications. She has been awarded by NASA and the History of Science Society (2015), the American Institute of Physics (2016), the European Space Agency (2017 and 2024) and the International Committee for the History of Technology (2016 and 2021). Since 2022 she is the coordinator of the European project CLIMASAT (“Remote-sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s-2000s”).

 

Cozzoli, Daniele (daniele.cozzoli@upf.edu)

PhD from the University of Rome, he is an associate professor of history of science at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). He is the editor-in-chief of Centaurus, the journal of the European Society for the History of Science, and coordinator of the History of Science and Modern Culture Research Group at the UPF. He is the autor of two books, Il metodo di Descartes (Quodlibet, 2008) and Ho avuto solo molta fortuna. Biografia intellettale di Daniel Bovet (Carocci, 2016). He has also published articles and book chapters on the history of optics, astronomy and philosophy of science in the 16th and 17th centuries, history of tropical medicine, molecular biology, biophysics and historiography of science. His current research focuses on the relations between science and politics in the US during the Cold War, on its global connections and on the relations between biomedicine, colonialism and Italian migration. You can find more information about his academic career here.

 

Díaz Fajardo, Montse (mdiazfajardo@ub.edu)

She was awarded the Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate in Semitic Philology (academic course 2010-2011). Her research is focussed on the critical edition and historical and scientific commentary of Arabic manuscripts on astronomy and astrology from al-Andalus and the Maghreb. In the field of history of Arabic science, she has also worked on medieval illuminated manuscripts, alchemy (as main researcher of the project "Learned Men of Science in the Andalusī Jaen"), and brontology in Arabic culture. In addition, she participated in an anthropological project on the value of instruction for the migrant Maghrebian women. Since 2022 she is the main researcher of the project ASARGAFIL ("Social aspects in medieval Arabic astrological sources: their legacy and discontinuity in the Greek tradition") financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

 

Florensa, Clara (clara.florensa@imf.csic.es)

Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the Milà and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona. She has been visiting student at the department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) at the University of Cambridge and postdoctoral research fellow at the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) at the University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on the mutual construction of science, political regimes, and ideology, with a particular interest in science in the public sphere. She has coedited four special issues on science and popularization (Journal of History of Science and Technology, 2024; History of Science, 2022; Centaurus, 2017; Actes, 2014) and her research has featured in the general media (El Periódico, Radio Betevé, DMAX documentaries). She has specialized in the study of science during Franco’s regime and her more recent case study is the 1966 Palomares nuclear accident in Spain.
 

Forcada Nogués, Miquel (mforcada@ub.edu)

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Barcelona. An expert in the history of Arab science, he is co-editor of Suhayl magazine. Journal for the History of Exact and Natural Sciences in Islamic Civilization. His research focuses on the fields of Arab astronomy and ethnoastronomy; medicine and natural sciences in Islam; historical contexts of science in al-Andalus; religion and science; history of scientific ideas; and the intellectual history of al-Andalus. Among his latest academic publications are: "Rational and more than rational sciences in the Umayyad Caliphate: Dialogue, debate, and confrontation", in Micrologus. Nature, Sciences and Medieval Societies (2025); "The golden age of Andalusian science", in Reconsidering 11th-Century Iberia (ed. A. García Sanjuán, 2025); and "Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī against the Moors: religion and science of the ancients in the Almoravid era", in Tradition and rationalism in al-Andalus: Authors, texts and contexts (ed. S. Masolini, 2025).

 

Galech Amillano, Jesús (jesus.galech@ub.edu)

Associate professor of history of science in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona. His main research interests are the history of science during the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, and the relationships and intersections between the arts and sciences throughout history. He has worked on various projects focused on the study of science and medicine, and on the history of astrology, astronomy, and mathematics from the 16th to the 18th centuries in the Iberian Peninsula and its colonial territories.

 

Girón Sierra, Álvaro (agiron@imf.csic.es)

Researcher at the Milà and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona. For decades, he has conducted in-depth research into the processes of appropriation of Darwinism outside and inside Spain, focusing on the anarchist case. He has studied how urban development shaped the way in which different political groups (freethinkers, anarchists, republicans) reinterpreted the key concepts and metaphors of evolutionism. He began by studying the specific biography of a city (Barcelona), before going on to analyse the role played by transurban and transnational networks in the processes of communication and appropriation of scientific knowledge, focusing on the relationship between Barcelona and Buenos Aires. He is currently studying the Canarian Museum (1879-1901), the transnational networks with which it is connected, its participation in the circulation of human remains, and its involvement in the racialised representation of the indigenous peoples of the Canary Islands.

 

Graus, Andrea (andrea.graus@imf.csic.es)

Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Milà and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona. Expert in the cultural history of the sciences of the mind and the history of childhood (19th-20th centuries). Her current line of research addresses the history of talent and precocity as a cultural and scientific object through the figure of the child prodigy in Europe. She has also published on the history of science and the phenomena of spiritualism, hypnotism, and mysticism. She is the author of Ciencia y espiritismo en España, 1880-1930 (Comares, 2019), co-editor of Histories of Science and Childhoods (2026, Vol. 41 of Osiris), and curator of the exhibition Child Prodigies: Fame, Science, and Politics (National Library of Catalonia, 2024).

 

Guevara Flores, Sandra Elena (SandraElena.Guevara@uab.cat)

She is currently a lecturer professor at the History of Medicine Unit of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). BA in biological anthropology by the National School of Anthropology and History (Mexico), MSc in medical anthropology by Brunel University (UK) and PhD in history of science from the UAB. Her research interests include the social and cultural history of disease and medicine, medicine and health in 16th-century New Spain, paleopathology, paleoepidemiology, medical anthropology, paleogenomics and sexological anthropology. While studying the cocoliztli in New Spain, she received the awards of the Division of History of Science and Technology-International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2019), and the 2018 Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran Chair-CIESAS-UV Annual Prize (2019). Her current research focus on endemic diseases that occurred in New Spain from 1521 to 1580.

 

Hochadel, Oliver (oliver.hochadel@imf.csic.es)

Tenured scientist at the Milá and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona. His research focuses on the relationship between science and its publics in historical perspective. Case studies include electricity as a public science in the German enlightenment, the history of the zoo in the nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries, the history of human origins research in the twentieth century and the (inter-)urban history of science around 1900. He is particularly interested in the circulation of knowledge on a European and global scale. With this transnational approach in mind, he is working on a history of the emergence of the “global zoo” in the long nineteenth century. He also strives to contribute to establishing the field of human-animal studies in Spanish academia.

 

Lévy Lazcano, Silvia (silvia.levy@cchs.csic.es)

Tenured scientist at the CSIC’s Center for Human and Social Sciences (Institute of History). Her research has focused on the circulation of psychoanalytic ideas in the fields of medicine, psychiatry and law in Spain. She is currently developing a research line on gender, subjectivity and experience in the writings of mental patients throughout the 20th century. 

 

Martín Moruno, Dolores (dolores.martinmoruno@imf.csic.es)

Senior scientific researcher at the Milá and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona and associate member of the Institute of Gender Studies (University of Geneva). She holds a PhD in the History of Science from the Centre Alexandre Koyré in Paris and the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has worked as a professor at the University of Geneva and has been visiting fellow at the Wien University, the Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University, the Centre for Research in Science and Technology History, the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis, the Centre for the History of Emotions (Queen Mary University of London), the New York University and the Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience (Tampere University). Her research focuses on humanitarian and gender histories, as well as the histories of emotions and experience. Her publications include Beyond compassion: Gender and humanitarian action (Cambridge University Press, 2023).

 

Miralles Buil, Celia (Celia.Miralles@uab.cat)

Lecturer in the history of science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is an expert in the social and urban history of health and the environment in contemporary history. She is particularly interested in the relationship between environment and health in professional discourses, in the sanitary control of epidemics and infectious diseases, in the ordinary practices of health and environmental professions, and in patients’ lived experiences of illness and sanitary measures in cities. Her main current lines of research are the everyday history of tuberculosis in Barcelona (1929–1970); the history of health and environmental risks in France, Spain, and Portugal; and the history of the everyday management of epidemics in port cities of the Iberian Peninsula throughout the twentieth century.

 

Molinari, Victoria (Victoria.Molinari@autonoma.cat)

Expert in the history of the human sciences with a particular focus on the history of the "psy" disciplines (psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis) and the history of education in the 19th and 20th centuries in Argentina and Spain. She is currently a Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. With a PhD in history from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), she was also a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the Milá and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona and at the UBA Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities.

 

Mori, Elisabetta (elisabetta.mori@upf.edu)

Researcher and historian of science and technology. She holds a PhD in history and philosophy of computing from Middlesex University, London. She is a Juan de La Cierva postdoctoral research fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and a Senior Research Fellow at The National Museum of Computing, UK. She also serves on the Council of the Commission for the History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC) and she is a member of the IEEE Computer Society History Committee. She was a visiting fellow at the Isaac Newton Institute (Cambridge, UK) and a visiting scientist at Software Heritage, Paris. She is an associate editor of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. She is a professional oral history interviewer with collaborations in Europe and the US. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and books, as well as magazines and newspapers such as The Guardian.

 

Nieto-Galan, Agustí (Agusti.Nieto@uab.cat)

Agustí Nieto-Galan is full professor of history of science and ICREA Academia Fellow (2009, 2018 & 2023) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has written widely on the history of chemistry, the history of science communication, and the urban history of science (18th–20th centuries). In this context, his books include Science in the public sphere (Routledge, 2016); Barcelona: An urban history of science and modernity (1888-1929) (Routledge, 2017) and The land of the hunger artists (Cambridge University Press, 2023). He has also analysed the relationship between science and politics in the twentieth century, with works such as The politics of chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Tóxicos invisibles (Icaria, 2020), Agnotologías (Tirant lo Blanch, 2024), and La materia no existe (Marcial Pons Historia, 2026). He is currently working on the epistemological role of refugee scholars and activists in the twentieth century.

 

Panoutsopoulos, Grigoris (Grigoris.Panoutsopoulos@uab.cat)

Postdoctoral researcher working on the ERC-funded project “CLIMASAT: Remote-sensing Satellite Data and the Making of Global Climate in Europe, 1980s–2000s”. He holds a B.Sc. in physics, a M.A. in history and philosophy of science and technology, and a Ph.D. in the history of science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests include science diplomacy, the material culture of science, the history of CERN, the relationship between European integration and scientific networks, and the history of satellite data. He has received support from various fellowships and grants, enabling him to present at international conferences and publish articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes.

 

Pardo Tomás, José (pppardo@imf.csic.es)

Scientific researcher at the Milá and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona. He currently develops two lines of research: the knowledge and practices of natural history and medicine, with a special emphasis on the relationships between colonial and metropolitan spheres during the 16th and 17th centuries; and the history of natural history and anatomical collections from the 16th century to the present day, their spaces (cabinets, gardens, theatres, museums, etc), actors and actresses and their communication networks (travels, correspondence, academies and societies, publications and teaching, among others). His last book (co-edited with Elisa Andretta) is Dioscórides ante el mundo. Usos plurales de un 'libro-laboratorio' en la Edad Moderna (CSIC, 2025).

 

Sans Ponseti, Cristina (Cristina.Sans.Ponseti@uab.cat)

Graduated in physics and with a PhD in history of science, she is an associate professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She has taught courses related to the history of science in the BSc in Medicine, Philosophy, Physics and Science, Technology and Humanities. She currently also works as an adjunct lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), where she teaches STS courses in the MA in Philosophy for Contemporary Challenges and MA in Contemporary World History. Her research focuses on the commodification of biological products, such as blood, and how they are inserted into industrial processes, as well as on the history of quantum physics in Spain during the twentieth century.

 

Sastre-Juan, Jaume (jaume.sastre@uab.cat)

Serra Húnter Fellow at the Institute for the History of Science and the Department of Philosophy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests are the political history of science popularization as well as the history and philosophy of technology more generally. He has published on the politics of “interactivity” in science museums, on the interest of the Rockefeller Foundation in science popularization in the 1930s, and on the banalization of nuclear technologies through display. He has co-edited the books Science popularization as cultural diplomacy in Cold War. UNESCO, 1946-1958 (Routledge, 2026) and La cultura científica de la Transición: Museos, ciencia y política en la Barcelona preolímpica (Bellaterra Edicions, in press). He is currently doing research on the history of concrete and the cement industry.

 

Serrano, Elena (Elena.Serrano@uab.cat)

Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute for the History of Science at the UAB. With a degree in chemistry and a PhD in the history of science, she trained at the former Centre for the History of Science (CEHIC) at UAB and at the University of Cambridge. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Institute for the History of Science in Philadelphia and the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the production and circulation of scientific knowledge, and the role of gender in these processes. She was a researcher on the CIRGEN project (Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment). She is the author of de Ladies of Honor and Merit: Useful Knowledge, Gender and Politics in Enlightened Spain (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), in which she analyses women’s scientific practices in sites outside the Academy, such as manors, foundling houses, and female jails. She also studies the relationships between the body, mind and soul. Among other publications, she has co-edited a special issue on the epistemologies of the amorous matching in the prestigious journal ISIS (It’s a Match!); on sensibility (Histories of sensibility: Gender, race, and sexuality in the global enlightenment); and on the senses (Touching visions: Intersensoriality and gender in the history of science).

 

Tabernero, Carlos (Carlos.Tabernero@uab.cat)

With a PhD in biology, he is associate professor of history of science and current director of the Institute for the History of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His work focuses on the media and the processes of construction, circulation, and management of natural history knowledge, specifically concerning narratives about nature mainly in relation to cinema, television, and literature. He has extensively published in these fields, including books such as Terapias de cine (“Film therapies: 50 basic films about medicine”, 2016), La venganza de la naturaleza (“The revenge of nature: 50 film narratives about the environment”, 2021) and Urban narratives about nature (2025); or research papers such as “The case of the killer she-wolf” (2022), “Wildlife comics” (2022) and “The Wasteocene on film” (2023). He has also experience as a director and screenwriter of short films.

 

Tolsa, Cristian (ctolsa@ub.edu)

Serra Húnter professor, he teaches in the degree of Classical Philology at the University of Barcelona. He has worked on various topics related to the boundaries between the Greek astral sciences and other areas of knowledge in antiquity, such as philosophy, biography, music theory and literature; and also on the transmission between the Greek world and other cultures and languages.

 

Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume (jaume.valentines.alvarez@uab.cat)

Associate professor of history of science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Previously he was a researcher fellow and adjunct professor at the Nova School of Science and Technology in Lisbon for eight years. He has also been a visiting scholar in Mexico, London, Berlin and Geneva. As historian of technology, his focus has been the twentieth-century Iberian Peninsula and his main interest is to understand how political authority and expert authority are entangled and resisted. His last works deal with technology and revolution, the politics of cycling, and the entanglement between the social construction of technology and the social destruction of technology. He is interested in crossing memories, useful arts and fine arts to imagine futures based on mutual aid, and in creating spaces to bring academics, activists and local communities together. He coordinates the project “Exchange zones of epistemic resistance and alternative innovation: Activism, grassroots movements and expertise, 1970s-1990s”.

 

Zarzoso, Alfons (azarzoso@imf.csic.es)

Tenured scientist at the Milá and Fontanals Institution for Research in the Humanities of the CSIC in Barcelona. He has participated in research projects on the history of medicine and has directed the Museum of the History of Medicine of Catalonia in Barcelona for more than twenty years, where he has curated numerous exhibitions and has been intensely active in the rescue of medical heritage. During this period, he has been a professor of history of science in the medical degree at the Complutense University of Madrid, in the master's degrees in history of science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Valencia, and in the anthropology of medicine at the Rovira and Virgili University. His research focuses on the material culture of medicine and the construction of the world of work in health, and scientific cultures in science museums in contemporary Spain.