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Juliette Ferry-Danini was an FNRS postdoctoral researcher with us between 2021 and 2023. Before that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. During her time at UCLouvain, she worked on the ethical and epistemological issues surrounding the use of AI in medicine. She is now working as an assistant professor at the University of Namur. Learn more…
Maxence Gaillard worked with us as a postdoc on the HYBRIDA project. He has a general interest in HPS discussions on scientific instruments. His previous research was mainly dedicated to the philosophy of neuroscience and cognitive science on the one side, and to medical humanities, especially neuroethics, on the other. He is still working with HYBRIDA, now at the University of Oslo, exploring conceptual and foundational issues of organoid research. Learn more…
Luca Rivelli joined us on the DHPB project in 2019, after a PhD from Padua University and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. His research focuses on the effects of computation and computational constraints on scientific practice, especially on the possibility of producing feasible and understandable explanations of large complex biological systems, such as genetic regulatory networks or proteomes.
Cécilia Bognon completed her PhD at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University (IHPST) where she examined the role played by the investigation of nutrition, and the constitution of the concept of metabolism, in the emergence of biology in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Her current research draws on the historical and conceptual analyses of ‘metabolism’ undertaken in her doctoral dissertation, and contextualizes the current problems raised by microbiome research for the notion of biological identity in the light of the inherited complex conceptual structure of the notion of metabolism. She is now an assistant professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris.
Oliver Lean joined the group in 2019, and his work with us focused on causal and informational concepts in molecular biology, and the relationship between traditional metaphysics and contemporary scientific practice, especially data-driven research. He is now working as a data scientist in Calgary.
The first MA student in the lab, Daniel joined at LSU in 2014. After writing a thesis on the role of dispositional properties in evolutionary theory (and with a co-authored publication in the works), he went on to receive a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and now is a postdoctoral fellow at Florida State. Learn more…
Chris joined us at LSU, and worked on extending our work in digital humanities and applying it to an exciting set of questions in the study of complex systems and emergence. He then pursued a doctorate in education at Harvard.