Message from Aitor Anduaga

Aitor Anduaga is a historian of science and Academic Visitor in the Modern History Faculty at the University of Oxford. At this moment, his research focuses on social, industrial and academic aspects of the history of Meteorology in the 20th Century, as well as the development of the research in the upper atmosphere.

Aitor Anduaga obtained his Bachelor of Science &endash; Physics Degree from Barcelona University in 1991, Bachelor of Philosophy from UNED, Madrid in 1996, Masters in Archives, Librairies, Museums and Historical Heritage Management and Register from Deusto University in 1999, and the PhD in Physics (History of Science) from the University of the Basque Country, 2001. His PhD Thesis is titled "The Institutionalism and the teaching of Meteorology and Geophysics in Spain (1800 &endash; 1950)". His research interests include:

• The Aerology or the upper atmosphere research in Spain during the first third of 20th Century;

• Scientific Biography of the Spanish Physicist and Meteorologist Mariano Doporto Marchori (1902-1964);

• The diffusion of Meteorology in Basque Country through the press (1850-1950);

• The beginnings of the Chair of "Física del Aire" in the Spanish universities. Biographic and scientific chronology of Miguel Azpíroz Yoldi (1916-1965).