Ana Simões

Ana Simões teaches at the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and is coordinator of the Interuniversitary Research Center of History of Science and Technology CIUHCT. She has also been the coordinator of the MSc Program on History and Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon since its creation. Her research interests include history of the physical sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries, history of science in Portugal, and history of science in the European Periphery. She is a founding member of the international group STEP – Science and Technology in the European Periphery and of the online journal of history of science and technology HoST. She is the author and editor of more than 80 national and international publications. A brief selection includes the co-edition of the book Travels of Learning. Towards a Geography of Science in Europe (2003) and the co-authorship of the book Cidadão do Mundo. Uma biografia científica do Abade Correia da Serra (2006), whose English translation is expected to appear in early 2012. She is coordinator of the Project “Reading newspapers: an open window to representations of science and technology in the Portuguese press (1900-1926)”. Her most recent book, co-authored with Kostas Gavroglu, titled Neither chemistry nor physics. A history of quantum chemistry. For more information see http://www.ciuhct.com/index.php/pt/doutorados/50-ana-simoes.html and http://cosmo.fis.fc.ul.pt/~asimoes/