Dr Natalia Fernández Jimeno

Natalia Fernández Jimeno is a "Juan de la Cierva" postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (IFS-CSIC). She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Oviedo, where she specialised in philosophy of technology and gender studies in technoscience. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Reproductive Imaginaries: Discourses and Socio-Technical Practices of Assisted Reproductive Technologies, explored the dynamic relationship between technology and gender through a case study of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) in Spain.

During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at the Reproductive Sociology Research Group at the University of Cambridge, led by Sarah Franklin, and at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She is currently a member of the research project Post-Normal Cultures of Science and Technology: Representations and Practices (PID2021-123454NB-C41). Her main research interests include the maintenance of socio-technical systems, gender relations in technology, imaginaries of science, technology and reproduction, bioethical challenges of reproductive technologies, and ethical-political issues in technology design.