Lucía Céspedes is a research associate at the ScholCommLab. She holds a PhD in Latin American Social Studies from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), Argentina. She is currently based in Montréal, where she works as research counsellor at the editorial consortium Érudit, and is a member of the UNESCO Chair on Open Science and the Chaire de recherche du Québec sur la découvrabilité des contenus scientifiques en français.

Lucía’s research brings together sociolinguistics, social studies of science and technology, and scholarly communication, in order to analyze conditions of production, circulation, and openness of scientific knowledge in centres and peripheries.

Lucía is also a member of the Red de Pensamiento Latinoamericano en Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad (Red PLACTS), as well as part of the Editorial Committee of the journal Ciencia, Tecnología y Política.

Contact Lucía at lucia.cespedes@umontreal.ca, or find her on BlueSky at @lucyces.bsky.social