Research

Core member running the British Academy Research Project Commodities of Empire’.

Member of UPF’s Research Group on Empires, Metropolises, and Extra-European Societies (GRIMSE).

Current Funded Projects

PI of the research project “The Maya Forest as a Global Commodity Frontier” funded by UPF’s Planetary Wellbeing initiative.

Co-Principal Investigator of the Mellon Foundation-funded project: Urban Palisades. Technology in the Making of Santa Fe, Mexico City.

Researcher in a project funded by the Spanish Government (AEI) on the memory of slavery in Spain and Spanish America.

Researcher in a project funded by CONACYT: Itineraries of Development and Technical Assistance in Mexico (1945-1989).

Additional Professional Activity

Member of the editorial boards of Technology and CultureArtefactGlobal Epistemics; and Illes i Imperis — for the latter I am also the book review editor.

Co-convener of the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Working Group on Latin America

Elected to the Governing Board (2020-2025) and the Executive Committee (2024-2027) of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property Rights (ISHTIP).

Reviewer for several academic journals, including History of ScienceEnterprise & Society, Technology and Culture, History of Technology, Journal of American History and The Hispanic American Historial Review as well as for book publishers such as BloomsburyCambridge University PressOxford University Press, Rowman & Littlefield, MIT Press, Palgrave, and Johns Hopkins University Press.

External Expert Reviewer: Consolidator Grants (ERC) and CIVIS3i-COFUND Fellowships.