Luis A. Campos

Luis A. Campos received his PhD in the History of Science from Harvard University in 2006, with studies in the history of the modern experimental biology, focusing on the intertwined histories of the early sciences of radioactivity and genetics. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at the MPIWG in 2007–2008 in Dept Rheinberger, and served as assistant professor at Drew University from 2006–2012, before being appointed Associate Professor and Regents' Lecturer in the History Department at the University of New Mexico, where he has been since 2012. He currently serves as the Secretary of the History of Science Society, and recently held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair of Astrobiology at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. In 2022, he took up the Baker College Chair for History of Science, Technology and Innovation at Rice University. Trained in both biology and the history of science, Campos’ scholarship brings together archival discoveries with contemporary fieldwork at the intersection of biology and society. He has written widely on the history of genetics and synthetic biology and is the author or co-editor of Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts (2010), Radium and the Secret of Life (2015), and Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds (2021).