My research focuses three different, yet interconnected questions regarding biological systems: What are the different mechanisms by which organisms both adaptively respond to the structure in their environments and create fitness relevant structure ? How do these mechanisms influence one another over both evolutionary and developmental timescales? What factors have facilitated the evolution of learning, memory, and anticipation? In oder to approach these questions, my research investigates lifecycles, ecology, and phenotypic plasticity across a wide swath of taxa. One organism that I have focused on extensively to investigate these questio…
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Cambridge UniversityLeverhulme Centre for Future Intelligence - Institute for Technology and HumanityResearch Associate
University of Edinburgh
PhD, 2021
Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Teleology and Function |
Philosophical Traditions |
Life |
Biological Modeling |
Extended Cognition |
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