Academic category and positions
CATEGORY
Professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Work at University of Valladolid (Spain).
RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Coordinator of the Social Research Unit on Health and Rare Diseases
Director of the Cátedra de Hermenéutica Analógica del Instituto Superior de Filosofía de Valladolid.
OTHER RESEARCHING GROUPS
Member of the Hispanic-Portuguese Research Group on Polio, Post-Polio and Margined Diseases (IBERRARA) - University of Salamanca.
Junior Associate Fellow of The International Institute for Hermeneutics
Member of the research group "Experiencialidad" of the University of Seville (Spain) (HUM 968).
POSITIONS AND BELONGING IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS.
Scientific and Technical Committee & Editorial Review Board on Social and Human Sciences of the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology.
Supporter of the Asociación Universitaria de Ciencias Sociais e Humanidades Galicia Iberoamérica (AGALI).
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Associate Editor: Journal of Rare Diseases (Springer).
Associate Editor: Frontiers in Sociology (Frontiers).
Associate Editor in Spain of the journal Bitácora-e (Venezuela).
RESEARCH NETWORKS
Member of the Code biology society.
Member of the Federación Española de Sociología (Spain).
Member of the Círculo de Biosemiótica.
Member of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies.
Member of the Red Interuniversitaria de contribución académica: Arte, cultura, alteridad e identidad.
Member of the Red Iberoamericana de Investigación de Postgrados (AUIP): “Vida Cotidiana, Ética, Estética, Educación y Política” (REDIVEP)
REVIEWER
Biosemiotics (Springer).
Cultura de los cuidados (UA - Spain).
Frontiers in Sociology (Switzerland).
Frontiers in Communication (Switzerland).
Filosofija-Sociologija (Lithuanian Academy of Sciences).
Healthcare (MDPI).
International Sociology (ISA - England).
Papeles de población (UAEMEX - México).
Papers (UAB - Spain).
Política y Sociedad (UCM - Spain).
Social Sciences (MDPI).
Societies (MDPI).
Sociology of Health and Illness (Wiley).
Revista Ciencias de la Salud (Colombia).
Revista científica Guillermo de Ockham (USBCALI - Colombia).
RIPS -Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas (USC - España).
Teorie vědy/Theory of science (Czech Republic).
Topofilia (México).
ADVISORY AND EDITORIAL COUNCILS OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Member of the Scientific International Comittee of the journals below:
Aposta Revista de Ciencias Sociales (España)
Revista Inclusiones (Universidad de los Lagos - Chile).
Lumen Gentium (Universitaria Católica Lumen Gentium - Colombia)
Telos. Revista de Estudios Interdisciplinarios en Ciencias Sociales (Venezuela).
100-Cs (Chile).
Revista Europa del Este Unida (Universidad Suroeste "Neofit Rilski"- Bulgaria).
Revista Pasajes (UNAM - México).
Member of the editorial board/committee of the following journals:
Sociología y tecnociencia (España)
Analogía Filosófica (México).
Topofilia. Revista de arquitectura, urbanismo y ciencias sociales (México).
Philosophical News (Italia)
Eureka: Social and Humanities (Estonia).
Revista Salud y Bienestar colectivo (Universidad de los Lagos, Chile)
Member of the advisory board of the following journals:
* Tendencias21 (España)
* Reflectio (México)
* Hiperbórea (México).
FORMER POSITIONS.
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Education - Campus "Duques de Soria" - University of Valladolid.
Director of the journal Sociología y tecnociencia of the University of Valladolid.
Co-director of the journal: Cómaros. Revista de Pensamento Galego - University of Vigo.
I have been a member of the Science, Nature and Society section of the Consello da Cultura Galega.
Content Manager of the journal Biocarburantes magazine.
Co-coordinator of Science and technology section of the journal Tempos Novos.
Coordinator of the "Social understanding" section of the extint journal Dovela Clave.
Director of the Center for Studies and Social Analysis of Galicia and Castilla y León.
I have been a member of the editorial board/committee of the defunct magazine Roteiros. Arumes de pensamento crítico (España).