Rodrigo Jesús Díaz Martín

Rodrigo Jesús Díaz Martín is a postdoctoral researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) under the Institute of Philosophy and part of the Applied Ethics Group (GEA). He previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Ethics Research Center of the University of Montreal and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich in 2021.

His research explores the nature of emotions and their roles in moral judgment, motivation, and epistemic processes. He employs an interdisciplinary approach blending philosophical analysis with empirical research, including surveys, neuroimaging, and behavioral experiments. Key contributions include challenging somatic theories of emotion and critiquing reactive theories of fear through linguistic and experimental evidence.

Recent publications examine AI emotional expressions, epistemic normativity, and emotional dispositions, with methodological innovations in fMRI applications and experimental philosophy. Awards include the Juan de la Cierva Contract, recognizing his postdoctoral research excellence.