Doctor Alberto Fragio is a Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Cuajimalpa Campus. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy (2007) from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, and in Cultural Sciences (2011) from the Scuola Internazionale di Alti Studi di Modena (Italy), homologated by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona in 2012.

He has been a researcher at the Institut für Medizingeschichte und Wissenschaftsforschung der Universität zu Lübeck (Germany), thanks to a postdoctoral fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Marie Curie Fellowship - M4HUMAN programme). During the academic year 2011/2012 he enjoyed a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swiss Government at the Chair for Science Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule - ETH Zürich). He has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (USA), at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach (Germany) and at the Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del CSIC (Spain).

From 2007 to 2013, he was an external evaluator for the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT). He is a member of the Zentrum für Kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (ZKFL Lübeck) and the HIST-EX Research Group History and Philosophy of Experience of the Spanish National Research Council (CCHS-CSIC, Madrid).

His most recent publications include the books "Introducción al pensamiento matemático y lógico" (2019, Mexico); "Paradigmas para una metaforología del cosmos: Hans Blumenberg and Contemporary Metaphors of the Universe" (2016, Mexico; English translation 2015, Rome); "Metaphors of Subjectivity in 19th Century Psychology, and Other Essays" (2016, Rome; English translation 2015, Rome); "Destruction, Cosmos, Metaphor. Essays on Hans Blumenberg" (2013, Milan); "From Davos to Cerisy-La-Salle: historical epistemology in the European context" (2011, Saarbrücken); as well as the co-edition of the collective monographs "Hans Blumenberg. Nuovi paradigmi d'analisi" (2010, Rome), "Contemporary Approaches in Philosophical and Humanistic Thought" (2017, Rome) and "Metaphorologie, Anthropologie, Phänomenologie. Neue Forschungen zum Nachlass Hans Blumenbergs" (2019, Freiburg/München). He has also co-edited and co-translated for Trotta Publishing House Hans Blumenberg's posthumous, Literature, aesthetics and nihilism (2016, Madrid). Accreditation of recognition of desirable profile DSA-SEP and member of the National System of Researchers Level II.