Mauro Ceruti is one of the european leading thinkers in the field of philosophy of complexity.

Mauro Ceruti took his degree in Philosophy of Science under the guide of Prof. Ludovico Geymonat. Then he went to Geneva University in order to deepen his knowledge in psychology and cognitive sciences.

From 1979 to 1985 he was researcher and scholar at Geneva University and at the International Centre of Genetic Epistemology founded by Jean Piaget and supported by the Rockfeller Foundation in Geneva.

In 1986 Prof. Edgar Morin invited Prof. Mauro Ceruti as a researcher to his “Centre d’Etudes Transdisciplinaires – Sociologie, Anthropologie, Politique”. This research centre worked and still works in pairs with the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the CNRS in Paris. At the Centre d’Etudes Transdisciplinaires, Prof. Mauro Ceruti led a research project on the anthropology and the epistemology of complexity.

The Nobel Prize Ilya Prigogine invites Prof. Mauro Ceruti to teach at the “Séminaire Prigogine”, at the Université Libre of Bruxelles.

After working as a Professor of Genetic Epistemology at Milano Bicocca University, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences, in 2001 he arrived at Bergamo University, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy and Director of CE.R.CO. – Research Centre on the Anthropology and the Epistemology of Complexity.

Prof. Ceruti was a member of the National Committee on Bioethics and is a member of GERG – General Evolution Research Group based in New York and of the French Association pour la Pensée Complèxe.

In 2004 the well-known Enciclopedia Rizzoli-Larousse dedicated to Prof. Mauro Ceruti a whole, specific item about his biography and his research work.