Claudio Canaparo holds a degree in political science and an M.A. in science. He did postgraduate work at the University of Bologna and was awarded his Ph.D. by King's College London. He has taught at the University of Exeter since 1995, where he currently holds the position of Reader and was recently Visiting Professor at the University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He is the author of Ciencia y escritura (2003) and Muertey transfiguracion de la cultura rioplatense (2005), among other authored and co-authored monographs and articles.