Em M. Lenartowicz

Em M. Lenartowicz was the creator and first director of the School of Thinking at the Free University of Brussels (VUB), a lecturer at the Department of Philosophy VUB, a managing director at the Global Brain Institute, a post-doc researcher at the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition research group at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies VUB, and the principal at Buckminster College in Belgium. She holds a PhD in humanistic management with backgrounds in social epistemology, complexity studies, theoretical linguistics, and philosophy of mind.

In her academic work, she seeks to advance the underpinnings that govern the evolution of intelligence in human systems at multiple scales. She is interested in the philosophy of cognitive science and conceptual approaches to the evolution of intelligence, cognitive development, distributed cognition, and collective consciousness.