Department: HISTORY OF SCI

Faculty: Faculty of Medicine and Odontology

Institut d' investigació: Inter-university Institute López Piñero

Area: History of Science

Research group: HCMT History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Email: ignacio.suay@uv.es

Personal web: https://suaymaig.blogs.uv.es/

Doctor by the Universitat de València with the thesis Análisis químico y expertos en la España contemporánea Antonio Casares Rodríguez (1812-1888) y José Casares Gil (1866-1961) 2014. Supervised by Dr. José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez.

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.