Sara Franceschelli is an associate professor of philosophy of science at the ENS de Lyon, co-responsible for the master LHPST at ENS de Lyon, a member of IHRIM UMR5317 and a member of the executive committee of IXXI, Complex Systems Institute of the region Rhônes-Alpes.
Trained as a physicist at the University of Bologna, she holds a PhD from the University Paris Diderot on the epistemology of deterministic chaos. She currently works on morphogenesis and dynamical systems, morphology and analogy, the figure of landscape between biology and physics, and the relations between models of complex systems and design.
Among her recent publications:
- Franceschelli S. (2020). ““And the rod starts to swing”. Morphogenèse, instabilités et organismes imaginaires dans l’approche de Turing à la biologie ». Retour à Turing : son héritage aujourd’hui. Intellectica 2020/1, n. 72, 191-215.
-Franceschelli S. (2020). “Epigenetic Landscape”. In F. Vercellone, S. Tedesco (eds.) Glossary of Morphology. Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis, Springer, 165-167.
- Franceschelli S., Petitot J. (2019). « Une théorie dynamique de la morphogenèse. Commentaires de Sara Franceschelli et Jean Petitot ». In Oeuvres Mathématiques. René Thom. Volume II, Société Mathématique de France.