Research Professor
Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science
San Sebastián, Spain
Visiting Professor
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics
COGS, University of Sussex, UK
Ezequiel A. Di Paolo is a full-time Research Professor working at Ikerbasque, the Basque Science Foundation and a Visiting Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Sussex. He is a member of the IAS-Research group (UPV/EHU). He received his MSc in Nuclear Engineering from the Instituto Balseiro in Argentina and his DPhil in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex. He was Reader in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex, where he has also been co-director of the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems MSc programme. His interdisciplinary work on embodied and enactive approaches to life, mind, and society integrates insights from cognitive science, neuroscience, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and computational modelling. His recent research focus is on embodied intersubjectivity, language, and participatory sense-making. He is (co)author of over 200 publications, including the books Sensorimotor Life: An Enactive Proposal (2017, Oxford University Press) and Linguistic Bodies. The Continuity between Life and Language (2018, MIT Press). He is co-editor of the recently published annotated edition of Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy (2025, MIT Press).
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