Santiago M. López (Madrid, 1961). Director of the Institute of Social Studies of Science and Technology of the University of Salamanca, President of the Spanish Association of Economic History, member of the Consolidated Research Unit 333 of the Community of Castilla y León (Spain). He has worked in the business stories of firms (Red Eléctrica de España, Iberdrola, Hispano-Suiza, Nestlé, CASA and ENUSA). He has collaborated in the BUCUM-TEMPUS projects of the European Commission, Valuation of Ecosystem Services, Financial Culture in Spain, Exchange and Transfer of Knowledge at the University and is the IP of the project Economic Inequality and Innovation (Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness / Spain) . His latest publications related to Covid-19: The effects of Covid-19 in our scientific culture: towards a Social and State Pact for science and innovation (Alternativas Foundation / Spain) and Covid-19 in the conjuncture of the gig economy (UNAM-México).