Luis Campos

Luis Campos is the Baker College Chair for the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation. Trained in both biology and in the history of science, Campos is a historian of science whose scholarship brings together archival discoveries with contemporary fieldwork at the intersection of biology and society. He has written widely on the history of genetics and biological engineering. He is the author of Radium and the Secret of Life (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and co-editor of Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2009), and Nature Remade: Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds (University of Chicago Press, 2021).

Campos has held the Baruch S. Blumberg/NASA Chair of Astrobiology at the Library of Congress (2016–2017), and has been in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Columbia University (New York), Fondation Brocher (Geneva), Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), and the biotech company Ginkgo Bioworks (Boston). He is an associate editor of the Journal of the History of Biology, and recently completed six years serving as secretary of the History of Science Society.