Michael Esfeld is full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Université de Lausanne. He authored several important publications in the fields of philosophy of mind, general philosophy of science and philosophy of physics. In 2017 Esfeld published his last monograph A minimalist ontology of the natural world (with D.–A. Deckert) edited by Routledge. He is and has been PI of several projects funded by the SNSF.