Andrea Núñez Casal
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, 2019 (pass without corrections)
M.A., Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths University of London, 2011 (Distinction)
B.S.c., Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2008 (First-class)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, Institute of Philosophy, Spanish National Research Council (IFS-CSIC) and Department of Philosophy and Anthropology, the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC), January 2022 - Present
Independent Consultant/Associate Lecturer 'Planetary Health' and 'Consumption, Identity and Daily Life', Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), September 2021 - Present
Visiting Fellow Gender Studies Institute, University Carlos III of Madrid, December 2020 - June 2021
Research Associate Genetics, Law and Society, The Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, The University of Oxford, 2020
Associate Lecturer 'Embodiment and Experience', Department of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, 2019-2020
Wellcome Trust Research Associate 'Following the life of a research institute: a biography of the Francis Crick', Science, Technology, Innovation Studies, The University of Edinburgh, 2016-2017
Associate Lecturer 'Culture and Cultural Studies', Department of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths 2015-2016
Associate Lecturer 'Embodiment and Experience', Department of Media, Communications, and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, 2014-2015
AWARDS
Margarita Salas Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC), Ministry of Universities, Spain
Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, State Research Agency (AEI), Ministry of Science, Spain (not accepted)
‘EcoSocieties Research Fund’, The University of Nottingham (UK), 2020
‘Shared Futures: Codeveloping Medical Humanities in China and the UK’, Wellcome Trust (UK), 2019 (not accepted)
'la Caixa' Foundation Postgraduate Fellowship (ES), 2013-2015
National Science Foundation (US), 2015
COST Action IS1001 (BE), 2014
Sao Paulo Research Foundation (BR), 2014
Goldsmiths Graduate School Funding (UK), 2013
Butler-Eyles Grant (UK), 2013
PUBLICATIONS
Núñez Casal, Andrea., de Lima Hutchison, Coll., Porter, John., Santesmases, María Jesús., and Mathpati., Mahesh. (submitted). ´Ways of healing: biomedical cures as emancipatory and biopolitical knowledges-practices´, Body & Society
Núñez Casal. Andrea. (in press). ´Microbiomisation: the socialised biology of environmental determinism in microbiome science´, The Journal of History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
de Lima Hutchison, Coll, and Núñez Casal, Andrea. (in press) ‘Situating (dis)embodied inequalities in the(ir) Eurocene: indigenous microbes, anthropometric growth standards and dietary prescriptions´, Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT).
O'Callaghan-Gordo, Cristina., Moreno, Ariadna., Bosque-Prous, Marina., Castro-Sanchez, Enrique., Dadvand, Payam., Faerron Guzmán, Carlos A., García Juanatey, Ana., Gascon, Mireia., Grau, Oriol., Jordana, Jacint., Lowe, Rachel., March, Hug., Medina, Xavier. F., Melon, Lela., Navas, Grettel., Núñez Casal, Andrea., Ruiz-Mallén, Isabel., Sánchez-Valdivia, Nacho., Tonne, Cathrun., Triguero-Mas, Margarita., Zografos, Christos., and Josep M. Antó (2022) ‘Responding to the need for postgraduate education for Planetary Health: Development of an online master’s degree’, Frontiers in Public Health. Full text
Núñez Casal, A. (2021) ‘Feminist para-ethnographies: a proposition for a ‘critical friendship’ between embodied experiences and microbiome science’, The London Journal of Critical Thought, 4(1), pp. 21-35. Full text
Núñez Casal, A. (2021). ‘It begins with us: on why our embodied experiences matter in the disappearance of worlds’, EASST Review, 40(1), pp.8-15. Full text
Núñez Casal, A. and Hutchison, C. (2020). Antimicrobial resistance: Transdisciplinary research on humans, antimicrobials and microbes, Access Microbiology, 2 (7A). Abstract
Núñez Casal, A. (2019). The microbiomisation of social categories of difference: an interdisciplinary critical science study of the human microbiome as the re-enactment of the immune self. PhD thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London. Abstract
Núñez Casal, A. (2018). ‘The ‘microbiomisation of class’ as an ‘inventive fiction’ informing AMR research’, Antimicrobials in Society. Full text
Vermeulen, N. and Núñez Casal, A. (2018). Finding a place in science: the role of institutional configurations in the formation of scientific identity. In S. Schönbauer & R. Attenborough (Eds.) Scientific Identities: how to re-engage with identity and its politics, EASST Review, 37 (4), pp. 37-41. Full text
Núñez Casal, A. (2016). ‘Microbiomes’. In N. Vermeulen & S. Tamminen, Bio-objects meets multispecies ethnographies, EASST Review, 35(1), p. 25. Full text
Nunez Casal, A. (2016). Ambivalent solutions to antimicrobial resistance. In C. Chandler, E, Hutchinson, and C. Hutchison, C. Addressing antimicrobial resistance through social theory: An anthropologically oriented report, pp. 26-35. London: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Full text
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). ‘The biology of history’: antibiotics, resistant bacteria and the human effec: An interview with Hannah Landecker', Theory, Culture & Society. Full text
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). 'Excursus on the immune system: melting history, stories and microbiome data', British Medical Journal Open, 5(4), pp. A1-A9. Abstract
INVITED CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS
Nuñez Casal, A. (2022). Microbial transmission in neoliberalism: heredity, diversity, and disparity Boom, Bust and Antibiotics: The Empty Pipeline opening conference, Institute of Health and Society, The University of Oslo, June 9-10.
Nuñez Casal, A. (2022). Microbes, embodiment, and inequalities, Getting Unstuck, Mosaic Rooms, London, March 29.
Núñez Casal, A. (2021). Women, microbiology and transgenerational experiences, V International Workshop Gender, Aging, Sustainability and Quality of Life/Dead in Resilience Times, ENCAGEN-C, Charles III University Madrid, May 26.
Núñez Casal, A. (2020). Biodesigualdades en la postgenomica: microbios, experiencias encarnadas y la biologia socializada, 20 años de la Declaración de Budapest sobre la Ciencia y el uso del saber científico, Semana de la Ciencia y la innovación, Fundación para el Conocimiento, Comunidad de Madrid, 11 de noviembre.
Núñez Casal, A. (2020). Microbes, bodies, and unwaged labour. Re-enchanting the world with Silvia Federici, Ghent University (Brussels), October 29.
Núñez Casal, A. (2019). Enabling a ‘microbiology multiple’: microbes, embodiment, and (bio)inequalities, Social Theory and AMR, Durham Institute for Advanced Study, Durham University, November 14.
Núñez Casal, A. (2017). Ancient microbes?: Colonial science and the history of wayusear. AMR as a sustainable development challenge in low- and middle-income countries, University of Nottingham, June 27.
Núñez Casal, A. (2017). A critical approach on behaviourism in tackling AMR. Interdisciplinary Research & Antimicrobial Resistance Workshop, University of Bristol and ESRC, Engineer's House, Bristol, March 2-3.
Núñez Casal, A. (2016). Ambivalent solutions to antimicrobial resistance, The Constructing of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Workshop, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the Wellcome Trust, Latimer Place, Chesham, August 3.
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). Microbiomes. Bio-objects Meet Multispecies Ethnography workshop, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Anthropology, Boston, October 30.
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). The case of American Gut in personalised medicine. Doing Justice to Figures Symposium, London School of Economics (LSE), London, June 19.
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). Excursus on the immune system: attuning to 'Data Double’, Transmediale 2015, Berlin, Germany, January 28-February 1, 2015
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Nuñez Casal, A. (2022). The Science of the Letter: Microbiome Science, Proto-Immunology and Dispatches from Other Worlds, ‘Boundings and unboundings in the sciences: gender, experimentation, and authority’ with María Jesús Santesmases. The 10th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), 7 – 10 September 2022, Brussels, Belgium
Núñez Casal, A. (2022). The microbiomisation of class: re-embodying Buen Vivir, othering microbiopolitics, EASST 2022, Madrid, July 6 – 9.
Núñez Casal, A. (2021). Histories of Healing: Traditional and Local Medicine in Times of Pandemic, 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Prague, July 25-31.
Núñez Casal, A. (2021). Historias socioculturales de la curación microbiana: Brujería, microbiómica y remedios populares, XIII Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencia, Tecnología y Género, OEI Ecuador/CIESPAL, Ecuador July 14 – 16.
Núñez Casal, A. (2020). The microbiomisation of race: (individual) capital, food cultures and microbial embodiment, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)/European Association of Science and Technology Studies (4S/EASST) Joint Meeting, Prague, August 18 – 21.
Núñez Casal, A. (2018). Feminist para-ethnographies: attuning ‘matters of fact’ and ‘matters of concern’, Fresh Perspectives: Social Research on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), The British Academy, London, September 10.
Vermeulen, N. & Núñez Casal, A. (2018). Finding a place in science: the role of institutional configurations in the formation of scientific identity. EASST 2018, Lancaster University, Lancaster, July 25 – 28.
Núñez Casal, A. (2016). The 'second genome': individualisation, innovation, and inequalities in microbiome science, 4S/EASST Joint Meeting, Barcelona, August 31- September 3.
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). Impacted Immunities: Anthropocene bodies and environments in microbiome research, Resistant Matter: Histories, Politics, and Science of Multispecies Entanglements panel. Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), Denver, November 11-14.
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). Worldly Encounters: Microbes-Humans-Milieus, The Conference on Communication and Environment, University Boulder Colorado, Denver, Colorado, 11-14 June
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). Excursus on the immune system: melting history, stories and microbiome data, UCL qualitative Health Research Symposium: Enriching qualitative inquiry in health, University College London (UCL) London, United Kingdom, February, 18.
Núñez Casal, A. (2015). A Cartography of the Immune System: Montagu and the Microbiome
London Conference in Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 27-28, 2014
Núñez Casal, A. (2014). Digressions on immunity: from the British Embassy in Turkey to the Achuar's microbiome, The British Society for The History of Science Conference, The University of Leeds, Leeds, 8-10 January.
MANAGEMENT R&D ACTIVITIES
Panel organiser Ways of healing: exploring non-biomedical cures as emancipatory and biopolitical knowledge- practices, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), October 6-9, 2021, Toronto
Website development and management Microbiology Multiple: Microbes | Embodiment | Inequalities
Website development and management GERMEN: Gender, Microbes & Buen Vivir
Conference organiser Reconfiguring the Immune System: Bodies, Words and Worlds Symposium, Goldsmiths University, November 14, 2013
OTHER OUTPUTS
Member Commission on Gender and Women Gender and Women Studies (CGWS) in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, International Union for History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2021 – Present)
Member Antimicrobials In Society (2016 – Present)
Reviewer Body & Society (2015 – Present)
Reviewer Science as Culture (2020)
Member European Commission COST Action Bio-objects (2012-2014)