Alkistis Elliott-Graves

I am a Junior-professor in Philosophy of Science at Bielefeld University. My main research areas are general philosophy of science and philosophy of applied sciences (especially Ecology and Climate Science). I am interested in complex systems: what makes them interesting but also difficult to investigate. My recent work focused on the difficulty of making precise and accurate predictions in Ecology and Climate Science, and what this means for the scientific status of these disciplines. I am currently working on the broader implications of this research for the relationship between traditional philosophy of science and applied scientific practice.

Before moving to Germany, I grew up in Greece, studied in London, received my PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, and held temporary positions at the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University (postdoc) and the Center for Philosophy of the Social Sciences (TINT) at the University of Helsinki (Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship & PI of a 3-year University of Helsinki Project).