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Technical University of Munich

Dr. Carlos Cuevas Garcia

Postdoc

Innovation Research

Dr. Carlos Cuevas Garcia is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Sociology of Science and Technology and the Innovation, Society and Public Policy Research Group at the Department of Science, Technology and Society, Technical University Munich. His research, teaching, and supervision activities focus on how different societies idealize and practice diverse forms of collaboration and how in turn those forms of collaboration transform societies. Examples include the development of responses to climate change such as automated infrastructure inspection and maintenance, and climate service standards.

Currently, Carlos contributes to the project Climateurope2: Supporting and standardizing climate services in Europe and beyond. Carlos played leading roles in the successfully completed projects BoostEuroTeQ: strengthening institutional transformations for responsible engineering education in Europe and Scaling up co-creation: Avenues and Limits for Integrating Society in Science and Innovation (SCALINGS).

Carlos studied sociology in Mexico before obtaining an MA in Research Methods and a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom), sponsored by the Mexican National Council on Science and Technology. His PhD explored discourses around interdisciplinarity and the constitution of interdisciplinary subjectivities.

  • Co-creation, co-production, and interdisciplinarity
  • Climate services
  • European robotics for our aging, human and material, societies
  • European Universities Initiative

Selection

  • Cuevas-Garcia, C., & O’Donovan, C. (2024). Programming Engagement: Shaping Human-Robot- Public Interaction in a Smart City Robot Competition. In F. Muhle & I. Bock (Eds.), Communicative AI in (Inter-)Action: Investigating Human-Machine Encounters outside the Laboratory (pp. 27–54). Bielefeld University Press. https://doi.org/doi:10.1515/9783839475010-002
  • Cuevas-Garcia, C., Pepponi, F., & Pfotenhauer, S. M. (2024). Maintaining innovation: How to make sewer robots and innovation policy work in Barcelona. Social Studies of Science, 54(3), 352–376. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127231207082
  • Fuchs, L., Cuevas-Garcia, C., & Bombaerts, G. (2023). The societal role of universities and their alliances: The case of the EuroTeQ Engineering University. Tertiary Education and Management, 29(3), 263–277. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11233-023-09126-x
  • Lipp, B., Baudrin, M., Cuevas-Garcia, C., Pepponi, F., Rozwadowska, M., & Tsui, S. (2023). Co-creating end-user roles. Understanding the new variety of user involvement in public sector innovation. Science and Public Policy, 50(1), 146–159. https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scac050
  • Cuevas-Garcia, C. (2022). Managing Pandemic Risk in an Interconnected World: What Planning a Wedding Shows about Early Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak. In P. Martin, S. De Saille, K. Liddiard, & W. Pearce (Eds.), Being Human During COVID-19 (pp. 44–50). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529223149.ch005
  • Fuchs, L., Cuevas-Garcia, C., Bombaerts, G., & Mottl, P. (2022). University Alliances as Learning Networks: Towards Responsible European Engineering Universities? 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1109/FIE56618.2022.9962496
  • Cuevas-Garcia C. (2021). Constructing (Inter)Disciplinary Identities: Biographical Narrative and the Reproduction of Academic Selves and Communities. In: Kastenhofer K., Molyneux-Hodgson S. (eds) Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, vol 31. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61728-8_12
  • Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos (2018). “Understanding Interdisciplinarity in Its Argumentative Context: Thought and Rhetoric in the Perception of Academic Practices.” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 43(4): 54-73 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03080188.2016.1264133?needAccess=true&journalCode=yisr20#metrics-content
  • Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos (2015). ‘I have never cared for particular disciplines’ – Negotiating an interdisciplinary self in biographical narrative. Contemporary Social Science, 10(1): 86-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2014.974664
  • Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos (2016) Sense-making and self-making in interdisciplinarity: an analysis of dilemmatic discourses of expertise. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33552/
  • McGettigan T. and Cuevas-Garcia C.A. (2011). Rough Seas – Ethnography and Academic Freedom on the Scholar Ship. Lanham: University Press of America. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780761856108/Rough-Seas-Enthnography-and-Academic-Freedom-on-the-Scholar-Ship

Selection

  • Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos (2024). “Rationalities of European co-creation: Comparing robotics, SwafS and Erasmus+ actions”. Annual meeting, Society of Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam, 17 July.
  • Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos (2023). “Democratizing EU robotics? Collaborative machines and open innovation Infrastructures. Revaluing European Research Infrastructures Conference, Vienna, 25-26 May.
  • Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos (2023). “Articulating a digital transition in infrastructure maintenance: How do inspection robots and innovation policies co-evolve?” STIS seminar series, University of Edinburgh, 13 February.
  • Cuevas-Garcia, Carlos (2022). Early career sub-plenary “Speculative Ecologies for a Vulnerable World,” European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), Madrid, 7 July.
  • Cuevas-Garcia C., Pepponi F., and Pfotenhauer S. (2021). “When innovation meets decay 4S: sewer maintenance, innovation policy, and the making of European robots”. Annual meeting, Society of Social Studies of Science (4S), 9 October.
  • Cuevas-Garcia C., Pepponi F., and Pfotenhauer S. (2021). “Putting robotics co-creation into practice: Challenges and opportunities for open innovation and governance” (workshop). European Robotics Forum, Malaga, 3 April.

  • Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
  • European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)

  • 2015 Postgraduate representative of the year, University of Nottingham
  • 2015 2nd prize best Ph.D. publication, School of Sociology and Social Policy
  • 2011-2015 National scholarship, Mexican Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT)
  • 2010-2011 National scholarship, Mexican Council on Science and Technology (CONACYT)
  • 2009 ‘Mención honorífica’, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
  • 2008 Scholarship for ‘The Scholar Ship’
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