With a PhD in biomedical sciences and a bachelor's degree in philosophy, I am currently conducting research on relational biology and, more broadly, on the primacy of relationships in our understanding of living organisms.

Modern biology is heavily dependent on structures that can be localized, isolated, manipulated, and whose nature is already known (physico-chemical entities). It is therefore this materialistic and monistic approach that has guided our understanding of the living world since the last century. Within such a paradigm, living organisms are constantly threatened with being reduced to the properties of the matter of which they are composed, and life cannot help but appear as an unfathomable mystery to experimental biology.

However, the inevitable functional relationship present in any description of a living phenomenon is enough to reveal its complexity:  through exaptation (a structure that can have several functions) or degeneration (several structures having the same function).

My reflections are guided by this attempt to think about plurivocity (complexity) by rediscovering the relational nature of living beings, namely by paying renewed attention to their history woven with generative encounters (symbiosis, hybridization, etc.). This approach is thus in line with the relational biology project initiated by Nicolas Rashevsky and Robert Rosen, which I am attempting to bring into dialogue with philosophers who have thought about living beings. The main issues are both epistemological (what can we know about living beings? how can we get to know living beings each other?) and ethical (what should we do with other living beings?).