Julia Cimas Sánchez is a pre-doctoral Researcher in the Department of Sociology I at the University of Alicante, where she carries out her academic activity within the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies. She holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Alicante (2023) and a master´s degree in Sociocultural Analysis of Knowledge and Communication from the Complutense University of Madrid (2024). She began her research career during her undergraduate studies as a research fellow with a project focused on the analysis of the social research methods of the classical sociologist Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), supervised by senior lecturer José Ignacio Garrigós Monerris. Subsequently, she was a recipient of the JAE Intro ICU grant (2024) from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) for the project “Reproductive Bioeconomies”, led by senior scientist Vincenzo Pavone as Principal Investigator. The project addressed how emerging biotechnologies transform markets and social relations in the field of procreation from the perspectives of political economy and the sociology of science and technology (STS).

Currently, she is developing her doctoral thesis titled “Possible Kinships: Reproductive Technologies, Artificial Placenta, and the Reconfiguration of the Family,” under the supervision of senior lecturer María José Rodríguez Jaume and senior lecturer Diana María Gil González. Her research, framed within the Gender, Health, and Sexualities research line, explores the intersection between emerging biomedical innovations and the sociology of the family. Her work analyzes how technologies such as the artificial placenta influence social imaginaries regarding gestation, motherhood, and fatherhood, with a specific focus on family diversity, paths to parenthood for same-sex couples, and contemporary bioethics. Her research interests center on the sociology of reproduction, the sociology of the family, and the impact of healthcare biotechnologies.