I'm a Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. Together with María Cerezo and Vanessa Triviño, I coordinate the research group BioKoinos (https://www.biokoinos.org/). My research spans the history and philosophy of biology as well as broader questions in the general philosophy of science.
On the historical side, I have worked on the history of morphology, particularly the legacy of Aristotle's biology, but most of my work focuses on the recent history of evolutionary biology, with a special emphasis on evo-devo and evolvability. I combine bibliometric methods and oral history…
I'm a Tenured Scientist at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. Together with María Cerezo and Vanessa Triviño, I coordinate the research group BioKoinos (https://www.biokoinos.org/). My research spans the history and philosophy of biology as well as broader questions in the general philosophy of science.
On the historical side, I have worked on the history of morphology, particularly the legacy of Aristotle's biology, but most of my work focuses on the recent history of evolutionary biology, with a special emphasis on evo-devo and evolvability. I combine bibliometric methods and oral history to reconstruct the dynamics of scientific practice, and I use conceptual tools from cultural evolution to interpret these patterns.
Philosophically, I have explored the role of dispositions and propensities in evolutionary explanations, the interplay between imaging methodologies and concepts of life in developmental biology, and the nature of teleological and agential explanations in development and evolution. In recent years I have focused on reproduction, approaching it both theoretically, in order to integrate reproductive relations into our understanding of evolution, and through a feminist interrogation of the scientific practices that represent and explain female sexuality and reproduction. More generally, I am interested in interdisciplinarity and theory integration, the role of values in science, new materialism, and emerging forms of scientific realism.
