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Dr Christopher H. LeanMy current position is as a Research Fellow within the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University, working with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology under Prof. Wendy Rogers. My primary research areas are philosophy of the life sciences (biology, ecology, medicine) and ethics (bioethics, environment, technology). Recently, I have been writing on the role of biotechnology in conservation science and on invasive species. My research has been featured in the New York Times, awarded the Australian Association of Philosophy Media Prize, and helped create a biotechnology start-up. In 2025, I was awarded the AAP Alan Saunders Lecture alongside Kate Lynch. Here are my notes for it.
My previous work was with Prof. Paul Griffiths in the Theory and Methods in the Biosciences group in 2023. In 2021, I was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Prof. W. Ford Doolittle's lab at Dalhousie University researching ecosystem evolution. Before then I was a researcher at the University of Sydney working on laws of nature in ecology and the moral and legal ramifications of online genetic genealogies with Prof. Mark Colyvan. My PhD at the Australian National University was awarded in 2019. My dissertation, written under the supervision of Prof. Kim Sterelny, is entitled Ecological Kinds and the Units of Conservation. It focuses on the ontology of conservation science and its consequences for measuring biodiversity. This work lies at the intersection of philosophy of science, metaphysics, ethics, and policy, and is an active area of research. Please feel free to get in touch. You can e-mail me at Christopher[dot]lean[at]mq[dot]edu[dot]au Some further relevant sites are: https://philpeople.org/profiles/christopher-lean https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Christopher_Lean https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=nTWQTMYAAAAJ&hl=en |
