Ana Simões is a historian of science, head of the Unit for the History and Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon, and head of the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (University of Lisbon and New University of Lisbon). She has published extensively on the history of quantum chemistry, paying close attention to the role of different scientific cultures and styles of reasoning in shaping this in-between twentieth-century discipline. She has also published on various topics relating to the history of science in Portugal, all framed within the context of the historiographical rationale of the international group Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP), of which she is a founding member. She has analyzed the roles of science and experts in shaping political agendas, the ideological role of the popularization of science, and the representations of science, technology, and medicine (STM) in the generalist press, as well as historiographical considerations on the role of STM in the European periphery and in forging the identity of Europe. Although Ana has not worked on topics strictly related to those being explored in the Anthropocene Campus, she is looking for avenues to integrate some of these reflections in the research of the Center for the History of Science and Technology.