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 Culture; Artefact; Global 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 of the International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property Rights (ISHTIP) for the period 2020-2025.

Reviewer for several academic journals, including History of Science, Enterprise & Society, Technology and Culture, History of Technology and The Hispanic American Historial Review as well as for book publishers such as Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Rowman & Littlefield, Palgrave and Johns Hopkins University Press.

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