2024 Edition

Lynn Govaert 

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany

Lynn Govaert is an evolutionary ecologist. She always had a fascination for traits, and how traits change and evolve. The awareness that such trait evolution can actually occur fast and interact with ecological dynamics has sparked my research interest in eco-evolutionary dynamics, in which traits play a central role. Specifically, she researches how ecological and evolutionary processes interact and simultaneously shape and structure freshwater communities and ecosystems in their response to environmental change. 

Vicente Raja

MINT Lab, University of Murcia, Spain

Vicente Raja a post-doctoral researcher at the MINT Lab, a research fellow at University of Murcia (Spain) and external affiliate faculty of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy at Western University (Canada). In his theoretical work, he develops a framework for the study of brain-body environment systems based on ecological resonance. He is also interested in the history and philosophy of different approaches to psychology. His experimental work complements his theoretical work on ecological resonance and combines the use of nonlinear methods and virtual reality or sensory substitution devices to study human and plant behavior. 

Miguel Segundo-Ortin

MINT Lab, University of Murcia, Spain

Miguel Segundo-Ortin is a Ramón y Cajal Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Universidad de Murcia and at the MINTLab. Previously, he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Utrecht University (Netherlands) and the University of Wollongong (Australia). His research focuses on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences, specializing in ecological (neo-Gibsonian) psychology and other embodied and situated theories of cognition. His main interests are to develop a neo-Gibsonian approach to comparative cognition, using plants and other non-neural organisms as biological models, and to study how socio-cultural norms shape and mold human agency.