Edna Maria Suárez Diaz
Visiting Scholar
Dr., Professor for the History of Biology and the Philosophy of Technology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Residence: February 21–May 18, 2013
Research interests:
History of molecular evolution; philosophy of experimental traditions; philosophy of technology
Current work:
Cultural Anthropology meets Biological Markers: the Study of Mexican Indigenous Populations in the 1960s
Curriculum Vitae:
Studied biology and history and philosophy of science | Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science (Thesis: “El Orígen de Disciplinas Científicas como Integración de Tradiciones: El caso de la Evolución Molecular”)
1990 - 1996 | Assistant professor at National University of México, UNAM
1996 - 2000 | Associate professor at UNAM
1998 - 2000 | Dean of the School of Biology
Since 2000 | Tenured professor at UNAM
2003 - 2005 | Head of the Department of Evolutionary Biology
Since Aug 2005 | Visiting scholarat the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Visiting scholar at the University of California, Irvine (two months in 1992, 1993, and 1994); at Harvard University (one month in 1997 and 1998) and the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, UNAM (2001-2003)
Selected publications
Martínez, S. F. y E. Suárez. "“La evolución de técnicas experimentales: Hacia una Explicación de la Confección del Mundo”. " Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía XXVIII (82 1996)
Suárez, E. y A. Barahona. "“The experimental roots of the Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution”. " History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 17 (1996)
Suárez, E.. "“Satellite-DNA: a case study for the evolution of experimental techniques”. " Studies in History and philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (1 1996)
Suárez, E. (Editor). Variedad sin Límites: Las respresentaciones científicas. Mexico City: UNAM/Editorial Limusa , 2006 (in Press).
Suárez, E.. "“The rhetoric of Infomational Molecules: Authority and Promises in the early . " Science in Context (Accepted for publication) (2006)
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