He holds a medical degree (University of Buenos Aires), a degree in Theology (Argentine Catholic University), an MA in History and Philosophy of Science, and a PhD in History (University of Notre Dame, USA). He was a resident at the Ricardo Gutiérrez Children's Hospital, a visiting researcher in the Department of History of Science at Harvard University and the Department of History of Medicine at Yale University, and a visiting fellow at St. Edmund's College and Clare Hall (University of Cambridge), as well as at Boston College. He was a Guggenheim Fellow (2007-2008) and received grants from KAAD, CONICET, Fundación Antorchas, the Wellcome Trust, the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Scientific Cooperation of the French Embassy in Argentina, and the British Council. A full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires and the National Academy of History, he has published more than 130 articles and book chapters on the history and philosophy of science and is the author or editor of 18 books in the field. Asúa was a tenured professor of philosophy (science and religion) at the Colegio Máximo de San Miguel (Universidad del Salvador) from 1992 to 2017. He is currently a principal investigator at CONICET, a full professor of the History of Science and Medicine at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, and a professor in the Sociology PhD program at UCA. He was a member of the board of directors of Eudeba (2004-2007) and of the editorial board of Ciencia Hoy (1995-2008).