LAURA
NUÑO DE LA ROSA GARCÍA

Laura Nuño de la Rosa is a philosopher of science specializing in the philosophy and history of biology. Her work involves a fusion of research on the recent history of evolutionary biology and an examination of epistemological and ontological aspects within contemporary biology. Additionally, she explores the social implications of biosciences, including synthetic biology, biological theories of reproduction, and the sciences related to COVID-19. She completed her undergraduate studies in Humanities and earned a Master's Degree in Biophysics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2010. In 2012, she successfully defended her PhD in Philosophy with a dissertation focused on the problem of organismal form. Her doctoral journey was jointly supervised by José Luis González Recio from the Complutense University of Madrid and Jean Gayon from Paris 1-Sorbonne University. In the same year, Laura became a postdoctoral fellow at the KLI Institute in Klosterneuburg, Austria, where she also contributed as a lecturer at the University of Vienna. Between 2015 and 2018, she held a Juan de la Cierva fellowship within the IAS-Research group at the University of the Basque Country. In 2018, she joined the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid. Initially, she was a UCM postdoctoral fellow and later transitioned into a Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación fellow. Since April 2021, she has been serving as an assistant professor at the university. Laura has been a visiting scholar at various institutions including the Philosophy Institute in La Habana, Cuba, the IHPST in Paris, the KLI Institute in Vienna, and the Center for Advanced Study in Oslo. Nuño de la Rosa has (co-)authored 50 academic publications, including 11 articles in Q1 journals, 8 book chapters published by Oxford University Press, Springer, and MIT Press, and a co-edited Reference Guide published by Springer. She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Acta Biotheoretica, Biological Theory, JEZ-B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, and Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. Section Evo-Devo. Her involvement in her field is further highlighted by her participation in numerous conferences and workshops, where she has frequently been invited as a keynote speaker. She has been a part of 6 scientific committees and has organized 7 scientific meetings. Her research endeavors have received financial support, being the co-Principal Investigator of two I+D research projects funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the Center of Advanced Study of Oslo. She has also played a role in 12 national and international projects. Currently, she serves as a cluster coordinator for the Templeton Foundation program "Agency, Directionality, and Function: Foundations for a Science of Purpose." Her contributions to the field were recognized in 2019 when she received the prestigious Julián Marías Prize, awarded to the best young researcher in Humanities.