Research interests

• History of Biology (19th to 20th centuries);
• Pedagogy of Biology Teaching;
• Literature and Science;
• Reception of transformism and evolutionism in nineteenth-century Portugal.

Projects

• "Science, Society and Politics through the Teaching and the Research in Zoology and Botany: the case of the Polytechnic School of Lisbon (1837-1911)" (provisory title). PhD programme in History, Philosophy and Heritage of Science and Technology, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon. Supervision: Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota, and Jesús Català Gorgues (Universitat CEU Cardenal Herrera de València) (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BD/65741/2009), 2010-2013.

Participation

• "Science, Technical Training and the making of Portuguese Liberalism: the case of the Polytechnic School of Lisbon (1837-1911)", (HC/0084/2009), 2010-2013. Project coordinated by Luís Carolino.

Publications (selection)

1. Daniel Gamito Marques, "Towards the Improvement of Mankind: the link between Thomas Malthus's Principle of Population and Álvaro de Campos's Malthusian Laws of Sensibility", in Christopher Damien Auretta, António Manuel Nunes dos Santos, Denise Pereira, Daniel Marques, Heitor Matos (org.), Scientist Writers: Science, Fiction and the Rewriting of History between the Republic and the Dictatorship in Twentieth-Century Portugal, (forthcoming).
2. Daniel Gamito Marques, "A Recepção das Teorias Transformistas e Evolucionistas na Comunidade Científica Portuguesa: o Caso da Escola Politécnica de Lisboa (1872-1911)", in Carlos Fiolhais et al. (coord.), Livro de Actas do Congresso Luso-Brasileiro de História das Ciências, (Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2011), pp. 345-359.