“When I look over the books I have written, I know exactly which parts I understood and which parts I did not understand when I wrote them. The poorly understood parts sound scientific. When I barely understood something, I kept it in scientific jargon. When I really comprehended it, I was able to explain it to anyone in language they understood. [...] Understanding evolves through three phases: simplistic, complex, and profoundly simple”
(William Schutz, 1979, pp. 68-69)
I am working on several contributions related to (research) data sharing and reuse, impactful research, academic engagement, and coaching in an academic entrepreneurial ecosystem that I expect to publish and/or (re)submit in 2025 and 2026. The titles included below may (not) be the titles submitted to the journals in order to avoid authorship disclosure in the double-blind peer review process. Journals' titles are purposedly omitted while the articles are under review or submitted.
A Hermeneutic Dialogical Understanding of Data Reuse Across Different Access Regimes. My co-author José J López and I provide a hermeneutic dialogical process-oriented account of fitness between secondary data and novel research questions. In doing so, we propose the bounded individual horizon (BIH) "defined as [researchers'] intentional orientation towards the future; it is made up of the relations and circumstances that modulate each researcher’s unique situation" and we draw upon Gadamer's "horizons of meaning" and Leonelli's (2016) relational conception of data. Our empirical findings are based on ten case studies of data (re)use in health sciences, molecular/computational biology and epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1080/09505431.2024.2375218
Altruistic Academic Engagement. A case study in Spain (to be sumitted in Autumn 2025). Co-authored with Julia Olmos Peñuela, Ana García Granero and Francisco Javier Ortega (Universitat de València).
A Social Causal Explanation of Data Reuse: Beyond Access Regimes, Data Properties and Data Curation (to be (re)submitted in summer 2025). Co-authored with Pablo D'Este (INGENIO, CSIC-UPV).
David, Goliath, and the Butterfly Effect of Impactful Research in Management Research (work in progress). Co-authored with Julia Olmos Peñuela (Universitat de València).
Cognition and Agency In Data Reuse (work in progress).
“Data For Sale!”, Researchers’ Negotiations When Bartering Data (work in progress).
Start-up Coaching: What Does It Add To An Academic Entrepreneurial Ecoystem? (to be submitted in May 2025). Co-authored with Christopher Hayter (Georgia Institute of Technology), José J López (Université d'Ottawa) and Roman Lubyunsky (MIT I-Corps Program).
An Optimistic Governmentality Versus The Failure of Government: Start-up Coaching (work in progress). Co-authored with José J López.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
"Proyecto Cátedras. (Spanish University Chairs) Transferencia e intercambio de conocimiento entre grupos de investigación y equipos de alta dirección" (1 September 2024 - 28 February 2025; July 2025- currently). University of Valencia (Spain).
"Disrupting gendered stereotypes and disclosing neglected value-laden motivations of academic entrepreneurship" (UNGENDERED VALUES). My own MSCA post-doctoral project under the supervision of Ferran Giones (24 months. 1 August 2022 - 31 July 2024). Institute of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Science. University of Stuttgart (Germany).
EXREL (EXcelencia científica y RELevancia socioeconómica de la investigación) project. Researcher with Julia Olmos-Peñuela, project's PI.
IMPROC-BIONET (Movilización del conocimiento para la ciencia y la innovación: análisis de impacto y procesos en redes de investigación biomédica). Collaborator with Pablo D'Este and Rocio Poveda, project's PIs, and the rest of the team members.
RESEARCH GROUPS
FORTHEM (Fostering Outreach within European Regions, Transnational Higher Education and Mobility). Collaborator in Module 4 "Digital Transformation Lab"
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Entrepreneurship mentoring in research institutions.
Researchers' innovation behaviour. The role of researchers' value-laden motivations when conducting and commercializing research. I am also interested in knowing how researchers' values are, and become, aligned with broader societal values, and how and why values change over time.
Researchers' strategies in situations of incompatible institutional demands, and how researchers construct a positive account of their actions when their own personal values are compromised.
Data reuse is the topic of my PhD dissertation , which is the result of a multidisciplinary approach, which mainly stems from information science, and draws upon concepts and empirical work in the fields of STS, sociology of science, science policy, management studies, and philosophy of science. I provide a causal mechanistic explanation of the reuse of data. Dissertation title: A causal model to explain data reuse in science: a study in health disciplines.
Data sharing & Open Data. I am interested in the different types of negotiations, and agreements among researchers, and between other data stakeholders with regard to (research) data. In a study on data sharing, I draw upon the concept “knowledge control regime” (Stephen Hilgartner) in several case studies where knowledge and control are intertwined and co-constituted. I am interested in how researchers are "opening" and "commercializing" their data while safeguarding their research careers and funding opportunities with the current reward systems of science. Should Open Data be rewarded at all? If yes, what would be the consequences?
Social memory. A subtle way to control others consists of influencing their "individual memory" by shaping the "social memory" of the group they belong to. What it is left in the archives, our monuments, the different events and festivities that we commemorate, the way public spaces are shaped and designed, etc. are not innocent results of decisions and events in the past, but a conscious willingness to control people's "social memory" with specific cultural and political purposes. I am interested in uncovering how information objects "left from the past" are used in the present day to create or reshape current "social memories."
Records and information as evidence of human rights violations. I am interested in understanding the reasons behind the legal requirements at domestic and international courts for admitting electronic documents as authentic and reliable evidence of human rights violations. Assessing the authenticity of born-digital documents can depend on technological, organizational and institutional safeguards. I am interested in knowing which of these safeguards has more weight when accepting electronic evidence of human rights violations at international courts. I am interested in knowing how judges' personal norms, values and cognitive scripts might influence in their decision of accepting electronic evidence.
Accepted, but resigned
10th International Research Conference on Social Economy (CIRIEC), 27-29 October 2025, Bordeaux (France). Abstract: Spanish University Endowed Chairs in the Social Economy: Drivers for Transformation? Co-authors: Francisco Javier Ortega Colomer, Ana García Granero, Julia Olmos Peñuela (University of Valencia).
29th Annual International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators (STI ENID), 3-5 September 2025, Bristol (UK). Organized Special Session: Carrots and Sticks in the Evaluation of (Open) Data Sharing. Co-organizers: Julia Olmos Peñuela (University of Valencia), Nicolás Robinsón García (University of Granada).
5th ISA Forum of Sociology, 6-11 July 2025, Rabat (Morocco). Abstract: "Why Should Data Sharing (Not) be Rewarded?". Session: Reform Movements in Science: Changing Research Cultures for the ‘Better’?
Eu-SPRI 2023. "Research with Impact", 14-16 June 2023, Brighton (UK). Abstract: “How can I make a difference in the world?” Reflecting on impactful research with the seventh art. Co-authors: Ferran Giones, Kathrin Lichius, José López, Mª Francisca Petit, Andreas Wahl, Mia-Celine Zsohar.
EASST 2022. "Politics of technoscientific futures", 6-9 July 2022, Madrid (Spain). Panel 64. Abstract: What is written in a DMP will never be simply “what will happen”. Co-author: José López
Attended (or will attend)
Biennal meeting of the International Society for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB), 20-25 July 2025, Porto (Portugal). Abstract: Control Regimes on Data (Re)use. From Citations Requests to Authorship Impositions. Co-author: José López (University of Ottawa)
Research Evaluation in Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH), 19-21 May, Helsinki (Finland). Abstract: Spanish University Endowed Chairs in the Social Economy: Sowing the Seeds of Change?. Co-authors: Francisco Javier Ortega Colomer, Ana García Granero, Julia Olmos Peñuela (University of Valencia).
Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, 8-11 November 2023, Honolulu (Hawaii). Abstract: Beyond Basic and Applied Research. Target Objects as Complementary Explanations of Science Commercialization. Co-authors: José López (University of Ottawa), Ferran Giones (University of Stuttgart)
R&D Conference "Responsible and Responsive Innovation for a Better Future" , 18-21 June 2023, Sevilla (Spain). Abstract: Start-up coaching: what does it add to societal impact of research? Co-authors: Christopher Hayter (Georgia Institute of Technology), José López (University of Ottawa)
Eu-SPRI 2021 Conference “Science and innovation – an uneasy relationship? Rethinking the roles and relations of STI policies”, 9-11 June 2021, Olso (Norway). Abstract: “I did not write it on the grant application”: Unexpected societal impact. Co-author: Julia Olmos-Peñuela (University of Valencia)
Evaluating knowledge transfer and impact, 12-13 December 2019, Córdoba (Spain). Abstract: Between the Scyilla of Rigour and the Charybdis of Relevance: management scholars negotiating tricky knowledge transfer tides. Co-authors: Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Paul Benneworth (RIP)
Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (RESSH), 19-20 September 2019, Valencia (Spain). Abstract: Open research behaviour in management studies: an ideal honoured more in the breach than in the observance. Co-authors: Julia Olmos-Peñuela, Paul Benneworth (RIP), Ignacio Fernández de Lucio
XIII Congreso Español de Sociología, 3-6 July 2019, Valencia (Spain). Abstract: Opening the black box of the reuse of research data (Co-author: José López). Abstract: A relational framework for analyzing the reuse of research data. Co-authors: Pablo D'Este, José López
Eu-SPRI 2019 Conference Science Technology and Innovation Policies for Sustainable Development Goals. 5-7 June 2019, Rome (Italy). Abstract: The backstage pseudo-infrastructure of Open Data in molecular biology: reflections for science policy. Co-author: José López
Technology Transfer Society Annual Conference, 17-19 October 2018, Valencia (Spain). Abstract: “Data for sale!” Commercializing data for obtaining rewards. Co-author: José López
12th RES Users’ Conference and 7th HPC Advisory Council Conference, 20-21 September 2018, RES, Valencia (Spain). Attendance.
13th International Digital Curation Conference, 20-21 February 2018, DCC, Barcelona (Spain). Attendance.
Eu-SPRI Forum Early Career Researcher Conference (ECC): "Science, Innovation and the University: keys to social impact", April 2016, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV). Valencia (Spain). Attendance.
6th Plenary Meeting of RDA, 22-25 September 2015, Paris (France). Poster presentation (hand made. See at the bottom of my blog). Presentation.
Member of Round Table at the Winning Horizon 2020 with Open Science. Training young researchers. Foster Event. October 2014. UPV, Valencia (Spain). Presentation.
59th Annual Conference of the Michigan Archival Association. Ann Arbor, Michigan (USA), June 19-21, 2013. Attendance.
National Conference on Managing Electronic Records (MER). Chicago, Illinois (USA) May 20-22, 2013. Attendance.
Organized
Gender, Modernities and the Global Enlightenment (CIRGEN's conference, ERC AdG #787015), 23-25 February 2022, Valencia (Spain).
Eu-SPRI Forum Early Career Researcher Conference (ECC 2018) “Science, Technology and Innovation: New challenges and practices”, 3-5 May 2018, Valencia (Spain).
EurKind GWC 2016, 22-24 June 2016, Valencia (Spain).
Eu-SPRI Forum Early Career Researcher Conference (ECC 2016). “Science, Innovation and the University: keys to social impact”. April 2016, Valencia (Spain).
Workshop on Medical Innovation WOMI’15. December 2015, Valencia (Spain).
1st International Workshop on Open Research Data. 21 and 23 October, 2014. UPV (Valencia, Spain).
Is a video worth a thousand words at the International Criminal Court? Videos by citizen journalists as evidence of human rights violations, 2014. Unpublished.
The memory of the battle of Almansa: an enduring counter-memory, 2013. Unpublished.
Book review: Margalit, A (2002). The ethics of memory. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2013. Unpublished.