I’m Mady Hernández — a writer, historian of science, and a storyteller.

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Historical and Social Studies on Science, Medicine, and Scientific Communication at the University of Valencia. My dissertation project, Letters, Stars, and Photography: The Visual Languages of British Popularization of Astronomy (1834-1910), aims to study the making of astrophotography, book culture, and science popularization through three exemplary cases of works written by British women in science. This project has been funded by the Lisa Jardine Award of the Royal Society, a Research Grant from the British Society for the History of Science, and the Agnodike Travel Research by the Commission on Women and Gender Studies from the Division of History of Science and Technology, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Fellowship.

My research interests span the history of physics and astronomy, the history of women in science, book history, visual studies, and the history of science fiction.

Beyond academia, I write fiction rooted in the same questions that guide my historical research: What do we choose to remember? What do we allow ourselves to forget?