Joaquín María Azagra Caro

Joaquín is a Scientific Researcher in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at INGENIO (CSIC-UPV). His research focuses on scientific knowledge generation, science-industry-society knowledge transfer and exchange, science communication, pubic understanding of science and the psychology of researchers. He publishes in journals such as The Journal of Technology Transfer, Research Evaluation, Research Policy or Scientometrics.

Before INGENIO, Joaquín was associate professor at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, researcher at the EC Joint Research Centre and at the Institute of Public Policies (CSIC). He has completed stays abroad in centres like CWTS (Leiden), BETA (Strasbourg), GREThA (Bordeaux) or CINDOC (Madrid).

Joaquín has led several project as principal investigator and collaborated regularly with firms, foundations and public administrations. He has led a contract for the European Commission (Identification of H2020 potential partners for two Portuguese regions in Manufacturing and Circular Economy) and contributed to numerous reports. He has organised international events like the 2018 Technology Transfer Society Conference and some special sessions in other conferences. He has written seven articles in magazines or blogs (e.g. Research Europe, University-Industry Innovation Magazine, Nada es gratis o El País), and has been interviewed and imparted seminars for non-academic audiences

Joaquín has supervised several PhD students, research introductory grantees and research stay visiting trainees. He has taught for PhD programmes, training seminars and workshops. He has also been involved in the support to university spin-offs at the UPV.