Fernando Giraldez

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Research Outline

  1. ORCID ID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8682-9052.

Fernando Giraldez is Full Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Interested in the function and development of sensory organs, published about one hundred articles in international journals and books. Guest speaker at various universities, research centers, meetings and symposia, expert and panel member of research agencies and international journals, and founder member of the Spanish societies of Developmental Biology (SEBD) and Biophysics (SEB). Fernando does not run a lab anymore but is active in scientific writing and teaching. With broad experience in graduate and postgraduate education, he has launched new courses on Neuroscience and Humanities and has been involved in the development of new curricula.

Current Projects 

Las Neurociencias y las Letras is a project oriented towards the broad understanding of science as a cultural asset. It explores the common ground between Brain Sciences and the Liberal Arts by looking at culture, art and knowledge from the perspective of neurosciences, genetics and evolution. It is mainly but not only addressed to the Spanish-speaking community and developed from a website containing articles, courses and other activities.

 

Selected publications 2019-20

 

Giraldez, F. (2019) Ver para ver, pero no solo ‘tabula rasa’ en la corteza visual Cuaderno de Cultura Científica Firma Invitada, Enero 2019 https://culturacientifica.com/2019/01/13/ver-para-ver-pero-no-solo-tabula-rasa-en-la-corteza-visual/

 

Giraldez, F. (2020) Teaching Neuroscience as a Liberal Art.  Front. Educ. 4:158 (1-12). Conceptual Article https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2019.00158

 

Giraldez, F. (2020) ¿Por qué los humanos no entendimos lo que estaba pasando? La Brújula, en La Continuidad de los Libros http://continuidaddeloslibros.com/tag/fernando-giraldez/

 

Hair cells (blue), Supporting Cells (purple) and Nerve Endings (green) in the inner ear.

 

La Forge, Traité de l´Homme, Descartes, Paris 1664.