Brief CV-Biodata

Ph.D. in Philosophy (University of Deusto, Bilbao)

Universitary Specialist in Science, Technology and Society (STS)

Currently:

• Director of the Juan David García Bacca Research Seminar at the CESBOR-IFC (CSIC)

Member of "Twenty-Century Spanish Philosophical Thought" and "Post-modernity, Plurality and Post-secularity" Research Teams, as well as Permanent Interdisciplinary Seminar "Science, Humanities and Religion" (University of Deusto, Bilbao).

External evaluator of Diálogo Filosófico Philosophy Journal.

Special area of expertise: J.D. García-Bacca´s thought in which I am the author of numerous studies, outstanding amongst which is La filosofía de la técnica de J. D. García Bacca (Deusto University Press, 1999). The Venezuelan Science and Technology Ministry used this work for some of its programs in 2004.

Organizing Committee Member of the International Philosophy Congress: Centenario del Nacimiento de J. D. García Bacca (Bilbao, 2001), lecturer and co-editor of its Congress Proceedings (2003).

Contributor (by invitation of the Juan David García-Bacca Foundation) to the Conmemorative Book: Juan David García Bacca: “Vivir dos veces despierto” 1901/1992 (Caracas, 2005), Venezuela´s National Book Award 2005.

Examiner and Doctoral Thesis Jury Member: Juan David García Bacca: una invitación a la facticidad de la “transfinitud” y la “transustanciación”. La necesidad social del “Nos” y del método dialéctico de transustanciación, by Xavier Gimeno Monfort. Doctoral Thesis Director: Dr. D. Juan Carlos Siurana Aparisi. Universitat de València, 2015/05/26.

Promoter, Director and Co-ordinator of the Multidisciplinary Series Astrobiología y Filosofía in the Deusto University´s journal Letras de Deusto, as well as the homonymous Section in Cibernous (www.cibernous.com). I also collaborate with the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) and the Mexican Society of Astrobiology (SOMA).

Member of the National Committee of REDESPA (Spanish Planetology and Astrobiology Network).

Other Current Research Interests: Philosophy of Astrobiology, Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Mind, Mysticism and Transcendence.