Irina Castro

CONTACTS

belacastro@ces.uc.pt
irinacastro.ssc@gmail.com

BIOGRAPHY

Irina Castro is a Junior Researcher (JR) at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, integrating the Research group on Science, Economy, and Society (NECES). In 2009, Castro graduated in Applied Ecology at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro. In 2011 she got her MSc in Environmental Engineering and the same year she joined CES as a research fellow for the project "BIOSENSE | Science engaging society: Life Sciences Social Sciences and Publics", coordinated by João Arriscado Nunes. Since then she has collaborated in the development, promotion, and evaluation of science communication initiatives and promotion of science-society relations, with a particular focus on the relationship between society and bio/nanotechnology.

In 2013, she began her Ph.D. at the programme Governance, Knowledge, and Innovation (sociology branch) in which develops a thesis about the ontological construction of transgenic seeds through the practices of scientists and their scientific controversies. She works closely on this with João Arriscado Nunes (CES-FEUC), Rita Serra (CES), and Raúl García-Barrios, the latter researcher at the Multidisciplinary Research Centre of the Autonomous University of Mexico (CRIM / UNAM).

In 2014 she became a collaborator of CES Project Management Office.

ORCID: 0000-0003-1558-4515

CIENCIA ID: FE1F-6AF9-8C8C