(Madrid, 1962)
Poet, literary translator, essayist and professor of Moral Philosophy at the UAM (Autonomous University of Madrid). Previously he taught as a full professor at the University of Barcelona; as a visiting professor at the Carlos III University of Madrid, at the UNAM (Mexico City) and at the Michoacana University of Morelia; and as a visiting professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. He directed the OSE (Sustainability Observatory in Spain) in its startup phase. His specialized academic activity deals with ethics and ecology; agroethics; ethics applied to new technologies (biotechnologies, nanotechnologies...); "green" political philosophy; social conditions for ecological sustainability; social impacts of technoscience; sociology of social movements (especially the environmental movement).
He graduated in Mathematical Sciences (Complutense University of Madrid, 1986) and studied philosophy (UNED, 1984-86) and German literature (Humboldt University of Berlin, 1986-89). He has a doctorate in Political Science (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 1993), with a doctoral thesis on Die Grünen (published in 1994: The German Greens, Comares, Granada). He lived in Berlin, Paris and Barcelona before returning to Madrid in 1996, where he worked until the summer of 2008 as a researcher on ecological-social issues first at the 1º de Mayo Foundation, and then at the Trade Union Institute of Work, Environment and Health ( ISTAS) of Workers Commissions. He joined the Department of Philosophy at the UAM in the summer of 2009.
He is the author of thirty essays (solo or collaborative) on issues of environmental ethics, political ecology and ecological thought. He has extensively translated poets such as René Char and playwrights such as Heiner Müller. He won the Hiperión Poetry Prize in 1987, the “Madrid Book Fair – Parque del Buen Retiro” Prize in 1993, the “Villafranca del Bierzo” National Poetry Prize in 1996, the Jaén Poetry Prize in 1997, the International Prize Gabriel Celaya for poetry in 2000, the Stendhal Prize for translation in 2000, the Ciudad de Mérida prize for poetry in 2008. His poetic work has been translated into French, English, Italian, German and other languages, and included in numerous anthologies published both in Spain and abroad.
He participated in Medialab Madrid within the conferences organized for “Cibervisión02. Winter Cycle of Science and Technology of the Complutense University of Madrid” (February 27, March 4-8, March 11-15, 2002). In the context of the I International Festival of Art, Science and Technology – Cibervisión 02, a cycle of 18 conferences was held in which prominent personalities from the world of science, art and thought participated. The cycle addressed the topic of flows from the most diverse angles and contexts: those related to fluid physics; the dynamics of complex and self-organizing systems; global and economic ecosystem models; energy and information flows; neural flows and educational processes.
