Welcome to my personal homepage!

I’m currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Philosophy of Biology Group at the University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. I hold a fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Juan de la Cierva Programme). I’m also a visiting fellow of the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée (CREA), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique, and I collaborate with the «Complexité et Information Morphologiques» team, in Paris.

My research activity focuses mainly on the principles of biological organisation and autonomy, and their relations with agential and cognitive abilities. As a former postdoctoral fellow at the IHPST (University of Paris 1), I’ve been working in the project «The concept of function in the human, biological and medical sciences ». The homepage of the project can be found here.

I hold a PhD in Cognitive Science (Ecole doctorale Cerveau Cognition Comportement , University of Paris 6 - Jussieu).     My advisors were Giuseppe Longo and Alain Berthoz. My PhD research focused mainly on the epistemology of Cognitive Science, by specifically investigating spatial cognition as a case study. On this issue, I conducted both theoretical and experimental investigations on the concept of “perceptual invariant”.

More detailed information about my present and past research can be found in the Research page.

I’m a member of the board of the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive and of the journal Intellectica.

NEWS

05/10/2010

The programme of the second edition of the Séminaire de Biologie Théorique at the CREA is now online.

04/10/2010

A new paper entitled “Biological Organization and Cross-Generation” is forthcoming in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

29/09/2010

I’ve been the main organizer (with Pr. Alvaro Moreno) of the First European Summer School on Life and Cognition, held in Donostia - San Sebastian from 22nd to 26th June 2010. Thank you to all participants for their massive participation!