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Silvia Pérez-Criado is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department "Knowledge Systems and Collective Life." In 2024, she received her PhD in Historical and Social Studies on Science, Medicine, and Scientific Communication at the University of Valencia. Her dissertation examine DDT in Francoist Spain, a socio-material product shaped by power dynamics, knowledge production, and ignorance. The dissertation was awarded the 2025 Hernández Morejón Prize for the best doctoral thesis by the Spanish Society for the History of Medicine. Parts of this work have appeared in Culture & History and in a book chapter published by Tirant lo Blanch.
Pérez-Criado’s academic background bridges the natural sciences and the humanities: she holds a BS in Chemistry and an ME in Physics and Chemistry from the University of Granada, and an MA in History of Science and Scientific Communication from the University of Valencia, where she received the Extraordinary Master’s Award. She has been a fellow at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia and a visiting fellow at CIUHCT in Lisbon. She has also taught at universities in Spain, Portugal, and Brazil. Since 2023, she has served as Secretary of the Division on the History of Chemistry (EuChemS), and her research has been recognized with three SHAC New Scholar Awards.