Mª Ángeles Erazo-Pesántez
Communication Services
Senior Scientific Communication Technician
+34 942 20 16 16 Ext. 56417
Biography
Mª Angeles Erazo’s interest in understanding the relationships between human beings and science, technology, health, and the environment led her to develop a multidisciplinary and international academic background. At the Department of Sociology and Communication at the University of Salamanca, Spain, she earned a Ph.D. −with the mention of Doctor Europeus− in 2009 and a Master’s Degree in Science, Technology, and Society: Culture and Communication in Science and Technology in 2005. In the Netherlands, she obtained a Master’s Degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam in 2008, in addition to completing postgraduate studies in Bioethics at Radboud University Nijmegen. At the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), she studied the Master’s Degree in Social Media: Management and Strategy program and received a Master’s Degree in Education and ICT (eLearning) in 2021, a program in which she continues to contribute as an adjunct professor.
Between 2023 and 2024, she completed the Corporate Communication Specialization Program from the Association of Communication Executives (Dircom). In 2023, she earned a Master’s Degree in Mediation and Conflict Management from the University of Cantabria. Between 2000 and 2002, she obtained two postgraduate diplomas from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): 1) in Science Communication and 2) in Philosophical and Social Studies on Science and Technology. She holds an official Spanish university degree in Journalism and has several training certificates in Environmental Journalism (such as the course offered in 2005 by the Autonomous University of Madrid and El País newspaper), Scientific Journalism (such as the one she completed in 2006 at the Institute of the Americas in San Diego, California, USA), and Artificial Intelligence (such as the online course on ‘The Ethics of AI’, which she is studying in 2025 at the University of Helsinki, Finland).
After training in physics and social communication, over 20 years ago she decided to specialize in science communication and journalism, as well as in social studies of science and technology (STS). She has received several awards and recognitions for her level of responsibility and the quality of her work as a journalist and academic researcher. She has extensive professional experience in both digital and traditional media, as well as collaborations with science museums (such as the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam and the UNIVERSUM Museum at UNAM in Mexico) and universities in Spain, the Netherlands, and Latin America. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Ibero-American Journal of Science, Technology, and Society and, for almost a decade, has been part of the Spanish Association of Science Communication (AEC2), among other international networks. Mª Angeles Erazo is the author of several publications on communication, dissemination and journalism on science, environmental and health issues. Regarding these topics, she has experience as a consultant, speaker, university professor, and researcher. Her vocation and interest in making a positive contribution to the planning, execution, and management of projects and activitie on science communication, dissemination, and journalism, as well as in citizen science focused on topics related to the integral water cycle, motivated her to join the Communication team at IHCantabria.
