bio

I obtained my degrees in Philosophy (2006) and Library Science (2006) from the University of Murcia and my PhD in Philosophy (2012) from the Autonomous University of Madrid, within the “Science and Culture” doctoral programme, directed by Dr. Javier Ordóñez. My thesis, entitled “Los enfermos terminales como clase interactiva: Enfermedad incurable en España (1850-1955)” was developed at the Instituto de Filosofía del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, under the supervision of Dr. D. Javier Moscoso.

I have been a Visiting Fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine (London, 2009), at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge (2010) and at the Centre for the History of The Emotions at Queen Mary University of London (2011), at the Institute for Social History Valentín de Foronda in Vitoria-Gasteiz (2019), at the Centre for Global Mental Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (2022) and at the Laboratory Anthropology of Environment / Human Relations, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2023).

In 2013 I was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellowship with a research project entitled Material Cultures of Care and Emotion in Britain and Spain, 1890 – 1940 (HIST-CARE). This project aimed to reconstruct the affective lives of patients and carers through an analysis of the material cultures, physical spaces and cultural representations involved in the production of their experiences. I worked for two years at the Centre for the History of Emotions at Queen Mary University of London, one of the leading international centres for interdisciplinary work on the history of emotions.
In 2015 I received a Leonardo grant from the BBVA Foundation with a project entitled ‘El material del que están hechos los sueños. A proposal for the material history of emotions”. With this project I continued my research on the material history of emotions and space. My main thesis was that material culture and space have a major impact on how emotions shape our experiences of care and illness. I have continued this line of research for the last 5 years, resulting in the publication of several articles in journals such as Asclepio or Dynamis.

In 2020 I was hired by the University of Murcia as a postdoctoral researcher within the “Programa de Renovación Generacional para el Fomento de la Investigación”, with a project entitled “La naturaleza como horizonte ético. Modernity, ecological crisis and the experience of order. With this project I completed a transition from my previous work on the relationships between emotions, experience and “space”, to focus on the related topic of how our contact and immersion in nature is supposed to influence – and, according to some researchers, benefit – our sense of well-being.

Since 2018, I have been developing a second line of research on an innovative approach to the philosophical study of emotions, based on Lisa Feldman Barret’s theory of constructed emotions and its synergies with Bruno Latour’s relational ontology and Ian Hacking’s historical ontology. My proposal goes beyond traditional approaches to emotion in philosophy (emotion as feelings, evaluations and motivations) and explores what I believe to be a more productive field for transdisciplinary collaboration. In terms of the impact of this line of research, I have published 3 articles in 2021 (History of Psychology, Daimon and Isegoria) and a fourth in 2022 (Alpha). This line of research has crystallised in the funding by the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the research project “Climate crisis, mental health and well-being in the Anthropocene. An approach from historical ontology”, of which I am the PI. I am also PI of several national and European projects.

In 2022 I founded ehCOLAB, a joint initiative of the Faculty of Philosophy and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Murcia, with the aim of bringing together academics, artists and scientists from different disciplines around issues related to the environmental humanities.
I am the author of more than 20 academic publications indexed in the main databases (Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scopus, SPI, etc.) and I have participated in several national and international academic conferences and meetings. My first book, entitled Componer un mundo en común. ¿Por qué necesitamos un mundo en común? was published by Lengua de Trapo / Círculo de Bellas Artes in 2023.

In 2017 I was a lecturer in Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Miguel Hernández University of Elche. Since 2018 I have taught several courses in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Murcia, including Science, Nature and Society, Philosophy, Gender and Equality, Philosophy of Culture and Philosophy and Globalisation.

I was director of the Master in Cultural Management (2017 – 2018) at the University of Murcia and I am the editor-in-chief of the scientific journal Pensamiento al margen. I do public communication of philosophy, publishing several articles and collaborations in the local press and on the radio. I have curated two exhibitions in London as part of the curatorial collective 15 Curators (2014). I am vice-president of the Ibero-American Society for the History of Emotions and Experience (SIHEX) since 2022.

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