Emanuele Serrelli has a degree in education sciences (2003) and a PhD in education and communication sciences (2011) from the University of Milano Bicocca, where he is also finishing four years of postdoctoral studies. His main research fields are philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, and evolutionary theory, with additional interests in interdisciplinarity, and in models and modeling in various fields, including cultural diversity and evolution. Over the last four years, Emanuele has worked on several theoretical aspects of evolution, and on the idea of synthesis in evolutionary biology, and has published several papers including in the Journal of Anthropological Sciences, Evolution: Education and outreach, and Paradigmi: Rivista di critica filosofica. He has co-edited the books Macroevolution: Explanation, interpretation and evidence and Understanding Cultural Traits: A multidisciplinary perspective on cultural diversity (both published by Springer, 2015 and 2016 respectively). He currently sits on the scientific board of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Economics, Psychology and Social Sciences (CISEPS) at the University of Milano Bicocca, where he is head of the “Cultural Evolution” research program. He is also a research fellow in “The Hierarchy Group: Approaching Complex Systems in Evolutionary Biology” led by Niles Eldredge and managed by Telmo Pievani at the University of Padua, and mainly funded by the John Templeton Foundation. In July 2014, Emanuele was appointed visiting fellow at NESCent, the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Durham, New County, USA. From February to July 2013, he was a visiting fellow at the Lisbon Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab, Centre for Philosophy of Science, University of Lisbon, in the Templeton-funded project “Implementing the Extended Synthesis in Evolutionary Biology into the Sociocultural Domain”; besides research and publication, while there, he organized and moderated several scientific sessions, including at AAAS meetings in San Francisco (2012) and Boston (2013), and at the International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology (ISHPSSB) conference in Montpellier (2013). Earlier, he was a member of the scientific board of the 2012 Lisbon International Colloquium “From Grooming to Speaking: recent trends in social primatology and human ethology.” From August to November 2012, he was a visiting fellow at the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science (SCFS), University of Sydney, Australia, while in 2010 he was a visiting graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. In Australia and Utah he researched various aspects of the philosophy of evolutionary biology and the general philosophy of science. In 2009–11, Emanuele collaborated on a project with Centro Panta Rei, Milan, on the systemic socio-constructionist approach to human systems. The final report was submitted to the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in order to obtain permission to open a psychotherapy school; permission was granted and the school opened in December 2011.