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Full Name and Title: Prof. Dr. Mauricio Suárez

Address:          Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Philosophy, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain.

Telephone:      + 34 91 3945734                                          Fax: +34 91 3946025

Email:             msuarez@filos.ucm.es                                 m.suarez@lse.ac.uk

URL: https://philpeople.org/profiles/mauricio-suarez

Areas of Specialization: Philosophy and History of Science (physics, chemistry, biology and the life sciences); Philosophy of Probability and Statistics; Methodology; Causation; Metaphysics

Present Appointments:

• Full Professor (“catedrático”) in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Complutense University of Madrid (since October 2016; habilitated in February 2009)

• Research Associate, London School of Economics (LSE), since 1998

• Life Member, Clare Hall Cambridge, since 2023

Previous Appointments:

• Associate Professor (“profesor titular”), Complutense University (2002-16)

• Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol (1997-2003)

• Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University (1997-98)

• Teaching and Research Fellow, Department of Logic and Metaphysics, University of St Andrews (1996-97)

• Junior Lecturer in Philosophy of Physics, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University (1995-96)

Education: 

• PhD in Philosophy, London School of Economics (1992-97)

• MSc. Philosophical Foundations of Physics, London School of Economics (1991-92)

• BSc. Astrophysics, Edinburgh University (1987-91)

Visiting Positions, Awards, Honours, and Distinctions: 

• Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, 2022-23

• Visiting Scholar, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University (declined for Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship), 2022-23.

• Research Fellow, Institüt Wiener Kreis (Vienna Circle Institute), Universität Wien (University of Vienna), 2020-2022

• Honorary Research Associate, University College London (UCL), 2015-18

• Marie-Curie Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, London University (2013-15)

• Visiting Scholar, Philosophy Department, Harvard University (2007, 2009, 2011)

• Vice-President, European Philosophy of Science Association (2009-2011)

• Corresponding Member, International Academy for the Philosophy of the Sciences – AIPS, Brussels (since 2008)

• Visiting Scholar, Centre for Time, University of Sydney (2003)

• Leverhulme Trust Fellow, UK (2001-2)

• Junior Research Fellow (JRF), Wolfson College, Oxford (1995-96)

Refereeing

Regular referee (several papers yearly)

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (since 1994); Erkenntnis (since 2014); European Journal for the Philosophy of Science (since 2009); Philosophy of Science (since 2002); Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (2008-2014); Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (since 2018);  Synthese (since 2007); Theoria (Spain, since 2003)

Other Journals Refereeing

American Philosophical Quarterly; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Dialectica; Disputatio; Ergo; Foundations of Physics; Foundations of Physics Letters; Foundations of Science; History of the Human Sciences; International Studies in the Philosophy of Science; Journal of the American Philosophical Association; Journal for General Philosophy of Science; Journal of Philosophical Logic; Philosophia; Philosophical Psychology; Philosophical Quarterly; Philosophy Compass; Science and Education; Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences; Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics; Studies in History and Philosophy of Science; Teorema (Spain); Theoria (Sweden).

Book manuscript refereeing

Blackwells Publishers; Cambridge University Press; MIT Press; Oxford University Press; Routledge; University of Chicago Press.

Editorial Boards

Enrahonar, Spain (since 2008); European Journal for Philosophy of Science, Springer (since 2009); Journal for General Philosophy of Science, Springer (since 2007); Sapere (Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics), Springer, Advisory Committee since 2012; Teorema, Spain (Editor in philosophy of science / physics, since 2010); Theoria, Spain (Editor in philosophy of science / physics, 2003-9).

Evaluations for Institutions

• Leonardo Innovation Scholarships, Red Leonardo, BBVA Foundation, Spain, 2020; 2021; 2022.

• Research Projects in Philosophy (new call), BBVA Foundation, Spain 2021.

• Evaluation Committee, Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, 2020; 2021; 2022.

• Jury, Frontiers of Knowledge BBVA Foundation Awards, Humanities and Social Sciences Section, 2019. 

• Evaluator for Helsinki Collegium, Finland, 2018-19.

• Evaluator for National Science Centre, Poland, 2018.

• Evaluator for Agencia Valenciana de Evaluación y Prospectiva (AVAP), Valencia, Spain, 2017 – present.

• Expert Evaluator for the European Research Council (ERC), 2017 – present.

• Expert Committee, Centres of Excellence, Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland, April 2017.

• Evaluator of Promotion and Tenure in Philosophy, ICREA, Spain (Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats – the Catalan Institute for Advanced Study and Research), 2011-2018.

• Evaluator for the National Science Foundation (NSF), US, 2008, 2014, 2018.

• Evaluator for ANECA, Spanish National Agency for the Evaluation of Promotions (Comisión de acreditación de profesores titulares), 2008 – present.

• Evaluator for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2006-7.

• Chief Evaluator, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Science and Technology) Research Projects in the Philosophy of Science area, 2002-3, 2003-4, and 2005-6.

• Evaluator of ANEP (ANECA), Spanish Agency for Quality Evaluation, 2002 – present.

• Evaluator of Exeter University’s MA course in Philosophy and Sociology of Science, 2003.