About me

Key concepts:

historicity, organization as closure of constraints, anti-entropy, symmetry changes, biological measurement, disruption

Basic informations

Maël Montévil, Ph.D., Paris, France.

Contact:

• mael.montevil@gmail.com.
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Affiliation:

• Researcher (Chargé de recherche) in CNRS
• working in Centre Cavaillès, République des Savoirs UAR 3608, École Normale Supérieure

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Publications

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Short CV

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• I am a researcher (chargé de recherche) in CNRS, working in Centre Cavaillès, République des Savoirs UAR 3608, École Normale Supérieure.
  I work on the concept of disruption in biology.
  I also continue to my work on the theoretical foundations of biology, especially biological historicity and organization, and their challenges for mathematization.
  I will also touch on more general philosophical questions.

• I am currently a researcher at

  • IHSPT, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, with a grant of the Cogito Foundation: "Understanding the Anthropocene: towards a philosophy of biological disruptions."
    Building on advanced concepts in theoretical biology, this project aims to understand the notion of disruption in this field.

  • Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation, working on the contributive learning territory program.
    The aim of this work, initiated by Bernard Stiegler, is to theorize and experiment a new articulation between science and society in order to facilitate the necessary bifurcation of our civilization.

• Previously, I was a postdoctoral fellow at MSC, Université Paris VII Diderot, funded by the Labex "Who AM I?". During that time I also participated in the transdisciplinary Organisms group, organized by Ana Soto. The group worked on first principles in organismal biology.

• I was a postdoctoral fellow at IHSPT, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, with a grant from DIM-ISC of the île-de-France region. I worked with Matteo Mossio and we developed the concept of closure of constraints to understand biological organizations.

• I was a postdoctoral associate in Tufts University School of medicine, dept. of Anatomy and cell biology, Soto and Sonnenschein Lab. During my postdoctorale position in Tufts, I learned experimental techniques, and focused on morphometrics of mammary gland and collagen analysis in 3D gels and in vivo.

• I obtained my PhD under the supervision of Giuseppe Longo in LIENS, École Normale Supérieure and doctoral school Frontières du vivant, in Paris V, Descartes.
  My manuscript was entitled: Temps Biologique et Transitions Critiques Étendues - Vers Une Objectivation de l’état Vivant de La Matière, and part of it led to a book Perspectives on Organisms.