Ricard Solé
Physicist and Biologist
Ricard Solé is a research professor with ICREA (the Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies) and is currently working at Pompeu Fabra University, where he is head of the Complex Systems Lab in the PRBB (Barcelona Biomedical Research Park). He holds degrees in both Physics and Biology at the University of Barcelona and received his PhD in Physics at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. He is also External Professor of the Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico, USA) and of the Complexity Hub in Viena. His research has been supported by several institutions in Europe and the United States, from the McDonell Foundation to the ERC Advanced Grants. One of his main research interests is understanding the origins and evolution of complexity and of the natural and artificial systems, including the space of possible cognitions of what he calls "liquid brains". In the last few years, he has been driving new research aimed at the "terraforming" of ecosystems in danger of collapse. He uses both theoretical and experimental approaches based on synthetic biology. He is author of Todas las muertes. El final de la vida: de los océanos a los robots (Crítica, 2023).
Update: 28 September 2023
Contents
Carolin Emcke and Ricard Solé
Living in Bewildering Times
Inauguration of the Classics Festival
Immortality
Alternative Brains
Ricard Solé
“Mission Curiosity”: Why do we want to go to Mars and not to other planets?
Ricard Solé and Raül Garrigasait give their answers.
Ricard Solé and Guillem Anglada-Escudé
Mars: Frontier
Ricard Solé and Núria Jar
Virus, Ecosystems and Pandemic: The Challenge of Understanding Complexity
"Blade Runner" Christmas
With Ricard Solé, Gemma Marfany, Manuel Moreno & Ángel Raya
Ricard Solé and Patrizia Ziveri
Reinhabiting the Earth
Science at Christmas
Lectures by Ricard Solé, Carles Lalueza Fox y Gustavo Deco
The Brain. Brain(s): automatons, accidents and sinthetic evolution
Lecture by Ricard Solé
Alternatives to evolution
Albert Forns
Kosmopolis 13. The Genome: A Literary Language?
Debate with Pau Vidal, Ricard Solé and Roderic Guigó
Serendipity: a bumpy ride
Ricard Solé
Interview with Ricard Solé
About serendipity
I+C+i. Serendipity
Debate with Ricard Solé
Soy Cámara #5. I+C+i
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