foto Ignacio Suay Matallana
IGNACIO SUAY MATALLANA
PDI-Titular d'Universitat
Director/a Titulacio Master Oficial
Knowledge area: HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Department: History of Science and Documentation
Instituto Interuniversitario López Piñero, Pl. Cisneros, 4. 46003 Valencia. Email: ignacio.suay@uv.es
Biography

Professor of History of Science at the University of Valencia and member of the López Piñero Interuniversity Institute. He is currently the director of the Official Interuniversity Master’s Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication, and Principal Investigator (together with Ximo Guillem) of the ministerial research project Exchange Zones in the Regulation of Technoscience (PID-2023-150413NB-C22). He has two six-year research periods and one five-year teaching period. He is a chemical engineer, holds a master’s degree (with extraordinary award), and a PhD in History of Science and Scientific Communication (excellent cum laude) from the López Piñero Institute of the History of Medicine and Science. He has worked at CSIC as a predoctoral researcher (2012-2013) and has conducted research stays at the University of Notre Dame (USA, 2012), Oxford Brookes University (UK, 2013), and the University of Pennsylvania (USA, 2014-2015). His postdoctoral research was carried out at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (2014-2015, Philadelphia, USA) as well as at the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (2015-2017, Lisbon, Portugal). He has also served as an Assistant Professor at UMH, Associate Professor at UV, guest lecturer in doctoral courses at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2018) and the University of Buenos Aires (2019). He has received several recognitions such as the UMH 2017 Research Productivity Award (2018), the Career Award in Graduate Studies in History of Science from the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology (2017), the Early Career Scientist Grant 2016 from the European Society for the History of Science, the New Scholars Award 2015 from the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, and the Research Grant from the Scientific Instrument Society (2010). Between 2013 and 2015, he was the Secretary of the EuChemS Division on the History of Chemistry and has organized several editions of the EuChemS International Conference on the History of Chemistry.

Subjects taught and teaching methods
46482 - Scientific Communication Practices - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
46475 - Introduction to the History of Science - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
34880 - Ingeniería, sociedad y universidad - Degree in Telematics Engineering
46480 - Temas avanz.en historia y comunic.cienci - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
46477 - Science, Medicine, Technology and Society - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
46478 - Material Culture of Science - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
46479 - Mét.investig.histor. y comunicac.ciencia - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
34754 - Ingeniería, sociedad y universidad - Degree in Chemical Engineering
30228 - HISTÒRIA DE LA CIÈNCIA
46481 - Production & Dissemination of Pop. Sci. Cont. - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
46475 - Introduction to the History of Science
46476 - History of Scientific Communication - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
34363 - Historia de la Podología - Degree in Podiatry
34795 - Ingeniería, sociedad y universidad - Degree in Telecommunications Electronic Engineering
34356 - Degree final project - Degree in Podiatry
46476 - History of Scientific Communication
33187 - Histor. Aspect. social.Biocienc.Molecul. - Grau en Biotecnologia
46483 - Degree final project - Master's Degree in History of Science and Scientific Communication
Tutorials
01/09/2025 - 31/08/2026
MARTES de 12:30 a 15:00 DESPATX 2 DESPATX 2 FACULTAT DE MEDICINA I ODONTOLOGIA
Observations
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