Leonardo Bich is a ‘Ramon y Cajal’ Researcher at the IAS-Research Centre of the University of the Basque Country (Spain). He obtained a PhD in Epistemology of Complex Systems from the University of Bergamo (Italy). He worked at the CNRS (France), at the Biology of Cognition Lab of the Universidad de Chile, and at the Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh. His research is focused on theoretical and epistemological issues related to biological organisation, autonomy, and control and on their implications for investigations in Origins of Life, Synthetic and Systems Biology, and Theoretical Biology.