Massimiliano Simons is an Assistant Professor in Philosophy of Technology at Maastricht University and a voluntary staff member at the Institute of Philosophy (HIW) at the KU Leuven. After a MA in Philosophy (KU Leuven, 2014) and a MSc in Sociology (KU Leuven, 2015) he started a PhD in philosophy (funded by FWO) at the Institute of Philosophy at the KU Leuven in 2015, under the supervision of Prof. Paul Cortois. He defended his PhD in 2019, entitled "The Raven and the Trojan Horse: Constructing Nature in Synthetic Biology". It focused on the recent emerging discipline of synthetic biology, which aims to understand life by synthesising it in …

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