Aldemaro Romero Jr. is a public intellectual, scholar and former higher education administrator. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, and his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Miami, Florida. He has published more than 1,100 pieces, including more than 30 books and monographs and hundreds of articles in both peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications.
His academic interests range from environmental studies, cave biology and paleontology, to marine biology, to history and philosophy of science, science communication, and higher education. He has also been involved in mass communication and art productions and has been awarded numerous grants and prizes for his research, teaching, and communications work that includes directing, producing, written, and hosted about 2000 radio and podcasts and more than 500 videos and TV shows, including award-winning nature documentaries.
Recent Posts
New book of mine on history and philosophy of science
I just published “Contributions to the History and Philosophy of Science.” It is a collection of essays about how science is influenced by religion, history, politics, and society in general. I counter some long-held beliefs such as predestination, the linearity of biological evolution, and science as a cultural product devoid of human influences. It is […]
New peer-reviewed article on biospeleology.
I am proposing a new way to look at cave communities. The title is: Hypogean Communities as Cybernetic Systems: Implications for the Evolution of Cave Biotas.
New Book: Institutional Failure in Higher Education
Higher education has faced a great number of challenges in the last few years that include, but are not limited to, financial woes, bad press, ethnic and gender conflicts, legal conflicts, student debt, demographic tests, technological transformations, and leadership fiascoes. These challenges have been further aggravated by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Although other books have […]