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Alessandro Fontana combines a career in cybersecurity with research in theoretical biology and artificial life. Using computational and conceptual approaches, his work explores high-level organising principles underlying evolution, development, and ageing. In contrast to the predominantly bottom-up orientation of traditional life sciences, which often infer general principles from molecular mechanisms, his research adopts a more top-down perspective, starting from abstract system-level dynamics to generate hypotheses that may guide empirical biological investigation.
Is ageing a flaw or a feature? New research suggests it may be evolution experimenting within the body over time.
