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Writing / Irene Vega
La Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (RADE) will hold a public event to present its new corresponding member in the Experimental Sciences Section, URJC professor Jesús María Arsuaga. The ceremony will take place on Wednesday March 20 at 18:00 p.m. in the Marqués de Valdecilla Historical Library (Calle Noviciado, 3, Madrid). Dr. Rosario Lunar Hernández, full academician and president of the Section, will make the presentation on behalf of RADE.
Next, the URJC professor will proceed to his entrance speech, which will be titled Of affinities and enmities: the living atoms of chemistry. “With this speech I want to highlight the conceptual, scientific and educational aspects that link the introduction of Dalton's atomic theory, at the beginning of the 19th century, with the consolidation of chemistry as a scientific discipline,” emphasizes Professor Arsuaga. “In this context, I want to highlight the not always friendly relations of the atomic theory of chemists with other alternative approaches to atomism in philosophy, physics and mathematics.”
The RADE is the highest national institution in its field. Interdisciplinary in nature, it has a scientific, technical, humanistic and social character. Its antecedents date back to the Extraordinary Cloister of Doctors of Spain, created in 1845 at the Central University, the only one that could grant the title of Doctor throughout the 1915th century and the first half of the 1925th. In XNUMX, the Federation of Doctors was born, with the privilege of holding the Royal title since XNUMX. After various names, it is currently called the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain and is made up of ten sections, the fifth being Experimental Sciences, with four categories. of academics: numeraries, supernumeraries, corresponding and honorary.
“I consider that becoming part of the RADE is a great personal honor and recognition of my professional career, aspects that I extend to all the people and institutions that have contributed to the development of my academic career and especially to the Rey Juan Carlos University, to which I have belonged since 1998," acknowledges Professor Arsuaga, who also considers that "it is an enormous responsibility to serve the institution for the best fulfillment of the purposes entrusted to it and to represent the URJC with dignity in it."
A life dedicated to teaching and research
Jesús María Arsuaga Ferreras, professor of Didactics of Experimental Sciences and director of the Department of Educational Sciences at the URJC, has a doctorate in Chemical Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (Extraordinary Award), a degree in Chemical Sciences and a degree in Industrial Physics . He has been a pre-university and university professor since 1982 and has published more than 150 scientific articles, manuals and textbooks.
In addition, he is founder and co-director of the GIESTEM Research Group of the URJC, whose main line of research currently focuses on the educational problems associated with the STEM field in the primary and secondary stages.
Within the framework of the dissemination and dissemination of science, he has been director of the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+I) of the URJC for ten years, between 2004 and 2013, promoting the organization and consolidation of relevant events such as the Madrid is Science Fair, the European Researchers' Night and the Science and Innovation Week.
In the field of education open to society and ongoing training, it has actively participated since 2002 in the inclusion and teaching of scientific subjects in multiple programs of the University of Seniors of the Community of Madrid.
He is also a member of the Royal Spanish Societies of Physics (RSEF) and Chemistry (RSEQ) and since 2019 he has chaired the organizing committee of the Scientific Olympiads in Chemistry in Spain.