CV
Appearances and talks
2025
"Serious fun: philosophy, science, and creative practices" (with Scott-Fordsmand) – performative presentation, STS Research Day, University College London
2024
"Scientific Representations – a Quest for Style", BSPS 2024, York
"Science Communication: Between Realism, Empiricism, and Art", SciComm South West, UWE Bristol
"Fruit Fly in the Lab: Not Quite a Fly, nor is a Human", Symposium "Model Organisms: Materiality, History and Politics", ICI Berlin
"Aesthetic emotions and ‘aesthetic’ practices: Unpacking the Dynamic Model of Aesthetic Experience", Workshop "Perspectives on Aesthetic Emotions", Barcelona
2023
"Scientific Representations: Between Style and Fashion", STS Research Day, University College London
2022
"Scientific Articles are Modernist Stories ", The Epistemic Role of Narratives in Science Workshop, Zürich
"Mapping Emotions in Scientific Experimental Practice ", East European Network for Philosophy of Science, Tartu
"Scientific Experiments Beyond Surprise and Beauty", poster, The Society for Philosophy of Science in Practice, Ghent, Belgium
"Emotions in Scientific Experimental Research", European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions, Graz
2021
Philosophy and Science Symposium at the Section of Biology (organiser and participant)
"Scientific Articles are Modernist Stories", The 8th Congress of the Society for the Philosophy of Science, Mons
"What One Discovers Pretending to be a Molecule", Geneva Aesthetics of Science Workshop (organiser and participant), University of Geneva
2018
"Drosophila NOS Mutants Have Arrhythmic Circadian Behaviour", Swiss Drosophila Meeting, University of Fribourg
2017
"Rnb, a novel regulator of Drosophila Circadian Rhythms" (poster), Swiss Drosophila Meeting, ETH Zurich
Academic Positions
University of Cambridge, PDN Dept. (Visiting Fellow, 2024-2025)
Institut Jean Nicod, Paris (Visiting Fellow, 2022-2024 )
University College London, STS (Visiting Fellow, 2022-2024 )
University of Geneva, Dept. of Philosophy (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2022)
Training
MA, Creative Writing, Paris School of Arts and Culture, University of Kent
PhD, Molecular Biosciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland
MSc, Biophysics, Lomonosov MSU, Moscow, Russia
Additional Training
Writing Short Plays, Theatre 503 (2024)
Directing Theatre Productions, RCSSD, Evening course (2024)
The Curiosity Incubator, Jesus College, University of Cambridge (2024)
PhilSci India Winter School (2021)
Robert McKee's Story Seminar, Regent's University (2018)
Acting and Staging internship, Moscow Open Student Theatre (2009)
Funding Obtained
SNSF Spark: Funding for Unconventional Ideas (2024)
University of Cambridge Enhancing Research Culture Funds (2024)
(with Bénédicte Sanson and Helene Scott-Fordsmand)
SNSF Postdoc Mobility (2022)
SNSF Spark: Funding for Unconventional Ideas (2020)