She holds a BA in Philosophy (2019) and an MA in Philosophy, Science and Values (2021) from the University of the Basque Country (EHU). Currently, she is a full-time predoctoral researcher in the doctoral program in Philosophy, Sciences and Values, hired by the EHU since 2022 (EHU PIF22183). She is co-supervised by Dr. Monika Betzler (LMU Munich, Germany) and Dr. Hannot Rodríguez (EHU, Basque Country, Spain).

Her PhD aims to understand how emerging technologies shape the contemporary transformation of loving relationships, and vice versa: how our loving relationships shape emerging technological innovation. It moves from a canonical definitional framework of love toward a sociotechnical framework for affective justice, adopting an open anticipatory lens –essentially, examining how technologies shape multiple futures of love. To achieve this, she employs a hermeneutic and situated approach that exhaustively reveals possible scenarios and expectations at play. This research promotes reflection on the social (especially affective) impact of science and technology, as well as on the role of imagination in our ways of loving.

As a member of the PRAXIS research group, she actively participates in the working group of several projects on science and technology, such as CIASOR (Open science and innovation oriented to socio-environmental challenges: tensions and opportunities, PID2024-155808NB-I00). She also collaborates with Dr. Remedios Zafra and the GECULTEC R&D&I project (Gender and Technological Culture from Art and Representation, PID2021-127336NB-I00), analyzing gender representation in Internet scenarios through the study of contemporary artistic proposals. She is a member of the Future Studies Lab, at the University of Alcalá, Madrid, a space for theoretical, philosophical, and artistic experimentation dedicated to critically reflecting on the production of speculative imaginaries. She has international research experience at the IDEA Centre (Inter-Disciplinary Ethics Applied) at the University of Leeds, specializing in the philosophy of love.

Her publications include critical notes, review-essays, book chapters, and articles dedicated to the love–technology–future configuration, most recently “Tinder and the End of Love. Gender as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy” in Horizons of the present. Gender, technological culture and social networks (Aula Magna McGraw Hill, 2025).

Department of Philosophy, The University of the Basque Country (EHU),

2B30, Tolosa Hiribidea, 70, 20018 Donostia (Spain)

Carlos Santamaría, D11, Plaza Elhuyar, 2, 20018, Donostia (Spain)

email: oihana.iglesias@ehu.eus