Luciano Boi is currently Associate Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the
University of Cagliari. He has been Professor and a Senior Scientist at the École des Hautes
Études en Sciences Sociales, in the Centre de Mathématique et Philosophie des Sciences
(Paris). His main research interests include various aspects of mathematics and its
foundations, the interactions between topology and biology, complex systems, as well as the
history and philosophy of sciences. He is the author of numerous books and research articles
on these topics. He has been Visiting Professor in several universities and research institutes,
including the IHES (Bures-sur-Yvette), the IAS (Princeton), the Universities of Cambridge
(UK) Montreal, Heidelberg, Padova, Bologna, Trento and Lisbon, the SISSA (Trieste), the
UNAM (Mexico City) and the University of Roma “La Sapienza”. He has received several
fellowships and awards, notably from the Humboldt Foundation (Berlin, 1991-93), the
Guggenheim Foundation (New York, 1997), the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and
the Singer-Polignac Foundation (Paris, 2000). He teaches in some PhD European Programs.
And he is a member of several Editorial Board of international scientific Journals.
Among his numerous publications, Le problème mathématique de l’espace. Une qu?te de
l’intelligible, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg/Berlin, 1995. Symétries, Brisures de Symétries et
Complexité, en mathématiques, physique et biologie, Peter Lang, Berna, 2006. The Quantum
Vacuum. A Scientific and Philosophical Concept: From Electrodynamics to String Theory
and the Geometry of the Macroscopic World, The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,
2011. New Trends in Geometry. Their Interactions with the Natural and Life Sciences,
Imperial College Press, London, 2011. When Form Becomes Substance, Power of Gestures,
Diagrammatic Intuition and Phenomenology of Space, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2022. “A
Reappraisal of the Form - Function problem. Theory and Phenomenology”, Theory in
Biosciences, 141 (2022), 39-75. “Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Physics: From
Geometry to Topology”, Symmetry, 13 (2021), 2100-2120. “Ideas of Geometrization,
Invariants of Low-Dimensional Manifolds, and Topological Quantum Field Theories”,
International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, 6 (5), 2009, 701-757.
“Geometry of dynamical systems and topological stability: from bifurcations, chaos and
fractals to dynamics in the natural and life sciences”, International Journal of Bifurcations
and Chaos, 21 (3), 2011, 815-867. “Theories of space-time in Modern Physics”, Synthese,
139 (3), 2004, 429-489. “Plasticity and Complexity in Biology: Topological Organization,
Regulatory Protein Networks and Mechanisms of Gene Expression”, Information and Living
Systems. Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2011,
205-250. “A Topological and Dynamical Approach to the Study of Complex Living
Systems”, in Complexity and Emergence, S. Albeverio, E. Mastrogiacomo, E. Rosazza Gianin
and S. Ugolini (Eds.), Springer, Heidelberg-Berlino, 2022, 1-48.