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Javier Bustamante Donas has a PhD in Filosophy and Education Sciences by the University Complutense of Madrid. He also has a PhD in Science, Technology and Society by the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Nueva York with a Fulbright grant with professor Langdon Winner. He has a Masters Degree in Computing Science by the University Pontificia of Salamanca.

He usually holds lectures and courses in different universities of Europe, America and Japan, and he is the director of the Centro-Instituto Iberoamericano de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad (CICTES) and director of the specialization courses in Science, Technology and Society of the University Complutense of Madrid.

He won the Fundesco Award for his book Sociedad informatizada, ¿Sociedad Deshumanizada? in 1994, and he also has the Founders’ Award of Excellence, an important award for young researches in the United States. He is also the first of his course and has the Extraordinary Award of the Filosophy degree, number one of his course of Computing and Summa cum Laude in Science and Tecnology Studies.

He is professor of the Department of Filosophy of Law, Moral and Politics II. Currently he is professor of Ethics and Sociology at the University Complutense of Madrid and visiting professor at the University Pontificia of Minas Gerais in Brasil. He spends his free time looking for asteroids and supernovas.