CV - josep simon - History of Science

I teach and research the history of science, technology, and medicine, while enjoying an ordinary life in València and Mexico City.

Trained in València, Oxford and Leeds, in physics, science education, history of medicine, history and philosophy of science, museology and scientific instrument studies, I subsequently worked in France, the US, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil.

My work was supported by Spanish, British, European and American fellowships. I was Resident Scholar at the Dibner Library, Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center, Marie Curie Fellow at the Université Paris Ouest, Visiting Scholar at Cinvestav, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology STS Program, the Institut d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència 'López Piñero', the Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins, the Colegio de México, and the Universidade Federal da Bahia, and Spencer Fellow of the (US) National Academy of Education.

As for teaching, I was successively a tutor at the University of Leeds and the University of Oxford, a lecturer at the Universitat de València, an assistant and associate professor at the Universidad del Rosario, and in the way have taught as an invited lecturer in a number of history of science and science education postgraduate programs in Europe and Latin America. While in the recent past I devoted a large amount of my time to teaching, I am currently mostly focused on research and curatorship, but also teach yearly some postgraduate courses in history of science, technology and medicine.

My work is comparative and cross-national, and cuts across disciplines such as history of science, technology and medicine, history of education, book history, international relations, visual studies and scientific instrument studies.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2020-

Curator. Museu d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència. Universitat de València (Spain)

2020

Visiting scholar. Centre François Viète, Université de Nantes (France). 2 weeks

2019-

Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow. Institut interuniversitari López Piñero, Universitat de València (Spain)

2017-2018

Visiting scholar. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ensino, Filosofia e História das Ciências. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador de Bahia (Brazil). 3 months

2016-2018

Associate Professor in History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (Colombia)

2016

Visiting scholar. Centro de Estudios Históricos. Colegio de México. 3 months (Mexico).

2016

Visiting scholar. Museu de Astronomia e Cièncias Afins. 3 months (Brazil).

2015

Visiting scholar. Institut d’Història de la Medicina i la Ciència ‘López Piñero’ 1 month (Spain).

2014

Visiting scholar. STS Program. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 4 months (USA).

2014-2016

Spencer Fellow. National Academy of Education. two 6-month periods (USA)

2013-2016

Assistant Professor in History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (Colombia).

2013

Visiting scholar. Departamento de Investigaciones Educativas (DIE). Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (CINVESTAV). 4 months (Mexico).

2010-2012

‘Marie Curie’ Research Fellow. Institut de Recherches Philosophiques. Université Paris Ouest, Nanterre (France)

2010-2011

Kluge Fellow. John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, Washington D.C. two 3-month periods (USA)

2010

Dibner Library Resident Scholar. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. 3 months (USA)

2009-2010

Lecturer in History of Science. Departament d'Història de la Ciència i Documentació. Universitat de València. (Spain)

2009

Tutor in History of Science. University of Oxford (UK)

EDUCATION

2009

PhD in History of Science, University of Leeds (UK)

2004

MSc in History of Science: Instruments, Museums, Science, Technology, University of Oxford (UK)

2002

MPhil (D.E.A.) in History of Science and Medicine, Universitat de València (Spain)

2001

High School Teacher Certification in Experimental Sciences, Universitat de València (Spain)

2000

Bachelor of Physics, Universitat de València (Spain)

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Programa estatal de Generación de Conocimiento y Fortalecimiento Científico y Tecnológico del Sistema de I+D+i. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain)

Ramón y Cajal Fellowship. Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (Spain)

Spencer Fellowship. National Academy of Education (USA)

Cinvestav postdoctoral contract (Mexico) [declined]

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (European Commission)

Beatriu de Pinós Postdoctoral Fellowship (Spain) [declined]

American Institute of Physics Grant-in-aid for history of modern physics and allied fields (USA)

John W. Kluge Fellowship, Library of Congress (USA)

Dibner Library Fellowship. Smithsonian Institution (USA)

CSIC-Bancaixa Fellowship (Spain)

University of Leeds PhD Research Scholarship (UK)

Fernández de Caleya PhD Scholarship (Spain) [declined]

International Summer School in History of Science Grant, Università di Bologna (Italy)

Linacre College, University of Oxford. Travel Grant (UK)

The British Council-La Caixa UK Postgraduate Scholarship (Spain-UK)

RESEARCH PROJECTS

2020-2023	PI	Museos, Aulas y Política: Cultura Científica y Tecnológica en la Transición Española. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [PID-2019-104897GA-I00] (coordinated with Jaume Sastre) (Spain)
2019-2024	PI	Material Culture of Science x Medicine. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [RYC-2017-21763]
2019-2024	PI	Science x Education x Technology. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación [RYC-2017-21763]
2017	Coordinator	“Information and Communication Technologies for Education in Colombia (20^th-21^st centuries)”. Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). (with A. Vera-Márquez)
2017	Coordinator	“Foundations of Educational Psychology in Colombia (1945-2017)”. Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). (with A. Vera-Márquez)
2014-2016	Main Researcher	“Transnational Paradigm? Physics and Pedagogical Innovation in the Americas (1945-1975)”. Spencer Fellowship. National Academy of Education (USA)
2013-2015	Collaborator	“The Production of Expert Knowledge in Contemporary Spain (19^th-20^th centuries)”. Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. (coord. J.R. Bertomeu)
2013-2014	Collaborator	“History of Nutrition and Medical Statistics in Colombia: Perspectives at the Crossroad of Science and Medicine”. FIUR-Universidad del Rosario (Colombia). (coord. M. García & S. Pohl)
2011-2013	Collaborator	“Instrument Histories: Collections and Knowledge in Movement”. CONACYT-Basic Science-130847 (Mexico). (coord. L. Cházaro)
2012-2013	Coordinator	Research Cluster Science X Medicine (STEP-Science and Technology in the European Periphery)
2011	Main Researcher	“Robert Andrews Millikan and the Making of American School Physics (1868-1953)”. Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, College Park MD.
2011	Coordinator	6^th European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization “Visual Representations in Science”. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and Institut d’Estudis Catalans. (with A. Zarzoso)
2010-2011	Main Researcher	“Shaping Physics in the Three Nations: Ganot’s Franco-British Canon and the Pedagogical Economy of American College Life”. John W. Kluge Center – Library of Congress.
2010-2013	Coordinator	Research Cluster Cross-National, Comparative and Transnational History of Science, Technology and Medicine. (STEP-Science and Technology in the European Periphery)
2010-2012	Main Researcher	“EuroTextbookScience–The Rise and Fall of Textbook Science: Technoscientific and Pedagogical Expertise in the Making of Physics in Europe (1802-1902)”. Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Project (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-IEF-254889). European Commission.
2010-2012	Researcher	“The Teaching of Science and the Configuration of the Expert in Spain” (HAR2009-12918-C03-01). Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. (coord. A. García Belmar)
2010	Main Researcher	“The Making of the French Physics Canon: Textbooks, Instruments, and Pedagogical Communication (1802-1851)”. Dibner Library, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
2006-2009	Researcher	The Publics of Science, Technology and Medicine in Spain (HUM2006-07206-C03). Spanish Ministry of Science and Education. (coord. A. Nieto-Galan)
2007-2008	Main Researcher	“Scientific Instruments and Pedagogical Practices: The Scientific Heritage of Valencian Schools (1845-1939)”. CSIC (Spanish Research Council) – Catalan Scientific Instrument Commission.
2006-2007	Researcher	“Scientific Instruments in the Nineteenth Century”. CSIC (Spanish Research Council).
2001-2003	Assistant Curator	Project Thesaurus-Scientific Instruments, Universitat de València (coord. J, R, Bertomeu & A. García Belmar)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2011-	Peer Review

	Journals	Actes d'Història de la Ciència i la Tècnica
		América Latina en la Historia Económica
		Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura
		Asclepio
		BJHS Themes
		British Journal for the History of Science
		Cahiers François Viète
		Centaurus
		Dynamis
		Estudios de Historia Moderna y Contemporánea de México
		The European Physical Journal H
		Hallazgos
		HiSTOReLo
		Historia Mexicana
		Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
		History of Science
		International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity
		Journal for General Philosophy of Science
		Journal for the History of Knowledge
		Llull
		Oficio. Revista de Historia e Interdisciplina
		Revista de Ciencias de la Salud
		Revista Digital Universitaria
		Revista de Estudios Sociales
		Revista Mexicana de Física
		Science as Culture
		Science & Education
		Trashumante

	Institutions	Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain)
		Colciencias (Colombia)
		ESOCITE (Latin America)
		European Commission (Europe)
		National Academy of Education (USA)
		National Science Foundation (USA)
		Riksbankens Jubileumfond (Sweden)
		Springer Reference Works (German-American-Dutch-British global capitalism)
		Universidad Técnica de Pereira (Colombia)
		University of Cambridge (UK)

2021	Secretary and Vice-president	Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i la Tècnica (Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology)
2019-2021	Secretary	Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i la Tècnica (Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology)
2017-2018	Co-Founder and Coordinator	Red Colombiana de Patrimonio en Salud [Colombian Network of Health Heritage]
2016-	Co-Founder and Coordinator	Instituto Raimundo Russi de Historia Aplicada de la Ciencia, la Técnica y la Medicina, Bogotá, Colombia
2013-2015	Co-editor	H-PhysicalSciences
2012-2013	Advisory Council	European Autumn School of History of Science and Education
2012-	Editorial Committees	Cultural Dynamics of Science series (2014-2018), Actes d'Història de la Ciència i la Tècnica (2012-), Cahiers François Viète (2015-), Anuario Colombiano de Historia Social y de la Cultura (2015-2022), Dynamis (2021-)
2011-2012	Founder & Coordinator	Arban – CBV Area in History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Spain)
2011-	Steering Committee	European Spring School on History of Science and Popularization
2011-	Executive Committee	Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i la Tècnica (Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology)
2010-2012	Executive Committee	History of Science and Medicine Museum. Universitat de València (Spain)
2009-2013	Seminar Coordinator	Societat Catalana d’Història de la Ciència i la Tècnica (Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology)
2008-2012	Coordinator	STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery) (with F. Papanelopoulou)
2007-2010	Executive Committee	University of Leeds Museum of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (UK)
2005-2012	Executive Committee	Catalan Scientific Instrument Comission (Spain)
2004-2005	Executive Committee	Centre for Heritage Research, University of Leeds (UK)

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP ORGANIZER

2022	Conference Symposium	"Transició en les aules: tecnologia, norma i memòria en l’ensenyament de les ciències (1933-1992)". XVII Trobada d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. SCHCT, Palma de Mallorca, 17-19 November.
2022	Conference session	"Guns, Germs and Steel: Neoliberal Science and Museology in Contemporary Spain (1949-2022)" (with Alfons Zarzoso). ARTEFACTS XXVII "Objects in Motion". Deutsches Museum, Munich, 16-18 October.
2022	Conference Symposium	"Material Culture and the Disciplinary Technologies of the History of (Science) Education". ISCHE 43-Milan (Histories of Educational Technologies. Cultural and Social Dimensions of Pedagogical Objects). 31 August-3 September, 5-6 September 2022.
2022	Seminar series	SCHCT 30 Anys (“30 Anys d’Educació, Investigació i Professió”). Societat Catalana d'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. SCHCT 30th Anniversary. Barcelona, 19 January-28 April.
2022	Symposium	VIII Matinal de Història i Ensenyament de les Ciències. «Itineraris educatius d’història de la ciència en la ciutat». Institut interuniversitari López Piñero-CEFIRE, 18-19, 25-26 February 2022.
2020	Conference panel	"Lliçons materials: història CTM del món clot a l’univers discernit". XVI Trobada D'Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. SCHCT-UMH-UA-IILP, Alacant (online), 12-14 November.
2019-2020	Seminar Series	Escala i Corda: Ciència, lloc i història / Scale & String: Science, Place and History. Institut interuniversitari López Piñero - SCHCT, València, December 2019 - February 2020.
2018	Conference panel	“Textbooks and the Systematization of the Study of The Sciences of Nature in Colombia (19th and 20th centuries)”. ISCHE 40 (“Education and Nature”). Berlin, August 29-September 1. (with R. Ríos)
2018	Seminar	Tecnología Común. Graduate seminar. Universidad del Rosario - IRRHACTM, Bogotá (Colombia), Feb-May, Sept-Nov.
2017	Conference	Encuentro Nacional de Colecciones y Museos de Historia de la Medicina en Colombia / National Meeting of Collections and Museums of the History of Medicine in Colombia, Universidad del Rosario, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Academia Nacional de Medicina, Instituto Raimundo Russi de Historia Aplicada de la Ciencia, la Técnica y la Medicina, Bogotá (Colombia), September 28-29. (with P. Ronderos)
2017	Seminar series	Semana de Historia del Patrimonio Médico / History of Health Heritage Week. Universidad del Rosario, Academia Nacional de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Instituto Barraquer, Instituto Raimundo Russi de Historia Aplicada de la Ciencia, la Técnica y la Medicina, Fundación Ciencias de la Salud, Bogotá (Colombia), September 25-29. (with P. Ronderos)
2014	Workshop	Forging Science and Medicine: Categories, Objects, Boundaries. Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá (Colombia), August 28-29 (with M. García)
2013	Conference symposium	Transnational Science? Building the Nation Across the Mexican-US Frontier. HSS Annual Meeting. Boston (US), November 21-24. (with A. Minor and J. Vargas)
2013	Conference symposium	Science X Medicine: Promiscuous Objects, Entangled Problems. 24th ICHSTM, Manchester (UK), July 22-28, 2013. (with M. García)
2012	Workshop	Visual Representations in Medicine (18^th-20^th centuries). Université de Bourgogne, Dijon (France), October 26, 2012. (with M-O. Bernez)
2012	Conference panel	“Technical Drawing and the Political Context of Science and Technology in 19th-C. France and England”. Three Societies Meeting, Philadelphia (US), July 10-12. (with A. Butrica & F. Robertson)
2012	Conference symposium	Rethinking Instruments and Measure: Entangled Objects across Practices and Geographies. 8^th STEP Meeting, Corfu (Greece), June 21-24. (with G. Mateos & S. Pohl)
2011	Conference symposium	Visual Cultures of Science. 19^th SHARP Conference. Washington, D.C. (US), July 15-17.
2011	Spring School	6th European Spring School of History of Science and Popularization: Visual Representations in Science, Maó (Minorca), May 19-21. (with A. Zarzoso)
2010-2011	Seminar series	Communicating Science: Pleasures and Pitfalls of History Narrative. Barcelona and Valencia (Spain). December 2010-May 2011. (with J. Sastre)
2010	Conference panel	“Comparative and Cross-National History of Science, Technology and Medicine”. 7^th STEP Meeting, Galway (Ireland), June 17-20.
2010	Conference symposium	“Cross-National and Comparative History of Science Education”. 4^th ESHS Congress, Barcelona (Spain), November 18-20.
2008	Conference panel	“Scientific Instruments: History and Challenges”. X Trobada d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. Lleida (Spain). November 13-16. (with A. Zarzoso)
2007	Workshop	“Developing the University of Leeds Science Collections”, University of Leeds (UK), 25 June 2007. (with C. Jones & G. Radick)
2006	Conference panel	“Scientific Heritage in Spanish Schools”. IX Trobada d’Història de la Ciència i de la Tècnica. Girona (Spain). November 16-19. (with J.R. Bertomeu)
2005	Conference	“First Postgraduate Meeting in History of Science”, Universitat de València (Spain), November 18-20. (with N. Herran, T. Lanuza, X. Guillem, P, Ruiz, J. Navarro)