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H. Ariel Saavedra Currivil is a PhD candidate in History at Universidad de los Andes, Chile. His dissertation, “Análisis del desarrollo nuclear en Chile desde la teoría del institucionalismo histórico, 1947-1990,” explores the political, institutional, and scientific dimensions of Chile’s nuclear program from a historical perspective. His research focuses on the history of the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, examining how political, scientific, and cultural debates shaped national and transnational understandings of science and technology during the twentieth century.
He is affiliated with several research networks in the history of science, including the Laboratorio de Historia de la Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad (LabHCTS, Chile), the Energy Humanities Reading Group at Georgetown University in Qatar (GUQ), and serves as a visiting researcher at the Comisión Chilena de Energía Nuclear (CChEN). He teaches undergraduate courses on Western History and History of Science in the Bachelor’s program at Universidad de los Andes, Chile, and has also taught Research Seminar courses at the university’s Institute of History.
Projects
On the (Post)-Colonial Margins: French Nuclear Explosions in Polynesia and their Measurements from the Chilean Coast during the 1960s