Maureen O'Malley

About me

I hold a Future Fellowship at the University of Sydney in the Department of Philosophy. I'm also associated with the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science. I'm working on philosophical issues in contemporary molecular life sciences. Before coming to Sydney in February 2011, I was a Senior Research Fellow at Egenis, the University of Exeter. Prior to that, I spent a few years in Ford Doolittle's evolutionary microbiology lab at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. I did my PhD on evolutionary explanations in the social sciences and humanities at the Universities of Edinburgh and Sussex.

Key research areas

[Me on a mountain ridge, by David Braddon-Mitchell]

Philosophy of microbiology
Philosophy of systems and synthetic biology
Philosophy of metagenomics
Philosophy of microbial phylogeny (especially in regard to the Tree of Life)
Philosophy of translational and integrative scientific practice

Photo courtesy of David Braddon-Mitchell at SmugMug

Contact details

[Me coming down a snow-covered mountain, © Matthew Slater]

Email:
      maureen.omalley<at>sydney.edu.au
Office:
      Department of Philosophy
      School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
      Quadrangle A14
      University of Sydney
      NSW 2006, Australia
Phone:
      0061 (0)2 90366591