Laura Nuño de la Rosa is a philosopher of biology working on the history and philosophy of developmental biology and evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo). She obtained a PhD degree (2012) on the problem of organismal form in contemporary biology, at the Complutense University of Madrid and the Paris 1-Sorbonne University, and was a post-doc fellow at the KLI (Kloserneuburg, Austria). Between 2015 and 2018, she held a Juan de l a Cierva fellowship at the IAS-Research group, at the University of the Basque Country. In 2018 she joined the Department of Logic and Theoretical Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid, first as a UCM postdoc fellow, and since April 2019 as a Juan de l a Cierva-Incorporación fellow.

Her research encompasses both the history and philosophy of biology, as well as broader questions in the general philosophy of science. On the historical side, she has worked on the history of morphology, particularly the legacy of Aristotle's biology, but most of her work focuses on the recent history of evolutionary biology, with a special emphasis on evo-devo and evolvability. She combines bibliometric methods and oral history to reconstruct the dynamics of scientific practice, while using conceptual tools from cultural evolution to interpret these patterns.

Philosophically, her work has explored the role of dispositions and propensities in evolutionary explanations, the interplay between imaging methodologies and concepts of life in developmental biology, and the nature of teleological and agential explanations in both development and evolution. In recent years, she has paid particular attention to the field of reproduction, approaching it both from a theoretical perspective—aiming to integrate reproductive relations into our understanding of evolution—and through a feminist interrogation of scientific practices representing and explaining female sexuality and reproduction.

More generally, she is interested in interdisciplinarity and theory integration, the role of values in science, new materialism, and emerging forms of scientific realism.