José Ramón Marcaida (PhD, 2011, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) is a Tenured Researcher at the Department of History of Science, Institute of History, CSIC. He works on the intersections of science and art in the early modern period, with a particular focus on the Hispanic context. His research interests include the contribution of images and image-makers to the production and dissemination of scientific knowledge; the development of knowledge-making practices in contexts and processes like the exploration and conquest of the Americas, scientific expeditions and the cultures of collecting; and the appropriation and reinterpretation of scientific themes in the cultural discourse of the period.

He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge (2012-2013); a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge (2014-2017); and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge (2015-2017). In 2018, he became a Lecturer in Art History at the School of Art History, University of St Andrews, a position he held until 2021, when he joined the CSIC.