History & Philosophy Publications

These are my published research outputs. I'll be happy to discuss these further via email.

I actively engage in History of Science research, having published on chemistry’s role in the emergence of Portuguese food regulations and how it can help understand ongoing issues on fake-science. At the interface of AI, chemistry, and ethics, I also developed research in philosophy of science, examining how AI reshapes discovery in chemistry. I was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship at the University of California, Irvine (USA), developing research on the role of chemistry in science-based regulation and misinformation. I have developed computer-based epistemic models to predict science-based discovery outcomes and exploring the emergence of science-driven policies.

History and Philosophy of Science


✣ Modeling Innovations: Levels of Complexity in the Discovery of Novel Scientific Methods Philosophies (2025) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Institutional echoes: the Laboratório Químico Municipal do Porto (1884-1907) as a model for the dynamics of scientific institutionalization Substantia (2024) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Reliable Chemistry - Ferreira da Silva, 100 Years of the Master of the Social Dignity of Chemistry Boletim Química (2024) Publisher Site PDF

✣ The Artificial Intelligence Explanatory Trade-Off on the Logic of Discovery in ChemistryPhilosophies (2023) Publisher Site PDF

Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina: "Contos velhos, Rumos novos" (book co-edited with Isabel Malaquias) • Editora da Universidade de Aveiro (2025) Publisher Site PDF

✣ The Roots of Food Regulation in Portugal: Science-Based Laws and Practices, 1875-1905Ler História (2023) Publisher Site PDF

Múltiplas Facetas na História da Ciência Química (book co-edited with Isabel Malaquias and João Oliveira) • Editora da Universidade de Aveiro (2023) Publisher Site PDF

✣ The Case of the "Salicylate Adulteration of Port Wines": Echoes of a Social, Economic and Scientific View of Portugal-Brazil Relations (1885-1905)Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência (2022) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Legislators' Plague: How History of Science Can Explain the Struggles of Universal Pandemic Responses (with Bruno D. A. Pinheiro) • Handbook of Research on Historical Pandemic Analysis and the Social Implications of COVID-19 (2022) Publisher Site PDF

✣ Modeling the Past: Using History of Science to Predict Alternative Scenarios on Science-based LegislationHypothesis Historia Periodical (2021) Publisher Site PDF

✣ António Ferreira da Silva and the Teaching of Chemistry at the Academia Politécnica do Porto (1877–1910) (with João Paiva and Francisco Romeiras) • História da Ciência e Ensino: Construindo Interfaces (2019) Publisher Site PDF