Martin Zach

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Hello!

My name is Martin Zach and I am a philosopher of science working at the Czech Academy of Sciences.

In 2021, under the supersivion of prof. Ladislav Kvasz (Czech Academy of Sciences) and prof. Roman Frigg (LSE), I defended my PhD thesis “Models and Modeling in the Biomedical Sciences” in which I addressed the nature of modeling in the context of conceptual and experimental research, with a particular focus on immunology, especially cancer immunology and COVID-19. My examiners were: prof. Sabina Leonelli, prof. Michael Weisberg, and prof. Marshall Abrams.

My current research interests pertain to philosophy of immunology, namely topics such as immunological memory and immunological tolerance. I am also interested in more traditional philosophical debates on mechanisms, scientific understanding, naturalism and scientism.

In Fall 2019 I was a research visitor at the ImmunoConcept lab, CNRS & University of Bordeaux. I was awarded the EPSA Fellowship for 2020. Previously, I was a research visitor at TINT, University of Helsinki (Fall 2018) and CPNSS, London School of Economics (Fall 2017).

In the period of 2019-2021 I was serving as one of two student representatives to the EPSA Steering Committee.

You can contact me at: zach[at]flu.cas.cz