Ana Simões
Professora Catedrática
Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências, FCUL
Interesses de investigação
- História das Ciências Físicas nos séculos XIX e XX;
- História da Química Quântica;
- História das Ciências em Portugal, séculos XVIII-XX;
- História das Ciências na Periferia Europeia;
- Historia da Popularização das Ciências;
- História das Universidades.
Projectos a decorrer
Coordenação
- Visões de Lisboa. Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina e a criação de uma capital tecnocientífica (1870-1940).
- UID/HIS/00286/2013. Projecto Estratégico – 2015-2017. Ver Flagships: Dicionário biográfico, Bibliografia HCTM, Volumes sobre HCTM, Revista HoST.
Participação
- Engineering the Anthropocene: Colonial Science, Technology and Medicine and the changing of the African landscape. ANTHROPOLANDS - PTDC/IVCHFC/6789/2014.
Publicações (selecção)
- Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, “Earth Sciences and History in the work of Correia da Serra (1751-1823). Ciências da Terra e História na obra de Correia da Serra (1751-1823),” Varia Historia 33(63) (2017), 625-56.
- Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Simões, “All history is relevant, but the history of technology is the most relevant”. An informal tribute to Kranzberg’s Laws, 22 (2016), ICON, 1-7.
- Maria Paula Diogo, Kostas Gavroglu, Ana Simões, “STEP Matters. Historiographical Considerations”, in Maria Paula Diogo, Kostas Gavroglu, Ana Simões, eds., “FORUM STEP Matters”, Technology & Culture, 57 (4) (2016), 926-929.
- Maria Paula Diogo, Kostas Gavroglu, Ana Simões, eds., “FORUM STEP Matters”, Technology & Culture, 57 (4) (2016).
- Theodore Arabatzis, Jürgen Renn, Ana Simões, eds., Relocating the History of Science. Volume in Honor of Kostas Gavroglu (Springer: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 2015).
- Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Kostas Gavroglu, eds. Sciences in the Universities of Europe, 19th and 20th centuries. Academic Landscapes (Springer: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 2015).
- Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, Luís Miguel Carolino, Teresa Salomé Mota, Uma história da Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa (1911-1974), (2013).
- Ana Simões, ed., Communicating Science, Technology and Medicine, HoST, 6 (2012).
- Kostas Gavroglu, Ana Simões, Neither physics nor chemistry. A history of quantum chemistry (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012, second reprinting 2014).
- Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Ana Carneiro, Citizen of the world. A scientific biography of Abbé Correia da Serra (Berkeley: Institute for Governmental Studies, forthcoming 2012).
- Pedro M.P. Raposo, Ana Simões, Manolis Patiniotis, José Ramon BertomeuSánchez, “Moving Localities, and Creative Circulation: Travels as Knowledge Production in 18th century Europe,” Centaurus, 56 (2014), 167-188.
- Ana Simões, Luís Miguel Carolino, “The Portuguese astronomer Melo e Simas (1870-1934). Republican ideals and popularization of science”, Science in Context, 27(1) (2014), 49-77.
- Ana Simões, Kostas Gavroglu, “P.-O. Löwdin and the International Journal of Quantum Chemistry. A kaleidoscopic agenda for quantum chemistry,” International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 114(2) (2014), 116-27.
- Ana Carneiro, Ana Simões, Maria Paula Diogo, Teresa Salomé Mota, “Geology and religion in Portugal”, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 67(4) (2013), 331-54.
Participação em Sociedades Científicas e outras Instituições (seleção)
- Presidente da European Society for the History of Science (2018-2020).
- Advisory Board of the series Boston Studies for the Philosophy of Science.
- Scientific Advisory Board of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), 2012-2017.
- Advisory Board of MPIWG Research library for the history and development of knowledge (Open Access Activity), since 2010
- European Society for the History of Science: Membro desde a sua fundação em 2004 e membro do Scientific Comittee desde 2012.
- Grupo Internacional STEP-Science and Technology in the European Peripheries: Membro Fundador (1999).
- Advisory Board of the Commission on the History of Modern Chemistry (CHMC), International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science/ Division of History of Science (IUHPS/DHS): Membro desde 1998.
- Membro do Conselho Diretivo of the Section on the History of Physics, European Physical Society: Membro desde 1997.
- Membro do Conselho Diretivo da International Academy for the History of Science, since 2012.
- Membro do Conselho Diretivo da International Commission for the History of Universities (ICHU), 2009-2015.