Xavier Roqué is senior lecturer of History of Science at the Centre for the History of Science (CEHIC) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He did post-doctoral at the University of Cambridge and the Centre de recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques, La Villette, Paris. His research focuses on the history of physicals sciences in the 20th century. His current research deals with the history of physical sciences in Spain, and in particular on the political and cultural relations of physics in Francoist Spain.