Ezequiel A Di Paolo (born in Buenos Aires, 1970) is a full-time Research Professor at Ikerbasque, the Basque Foundation for Science.
[1] Di Paolo studied Physics at the University of Buenos Aires and obtained a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Balseiro Institute in Argentina.
His research is in the tradition established by Varela, Thompson and Rosch,[2] which was an early example of the embodied, enactive approach to cognition.
His promotion and exploration of embodiment and enactivism is carried on through his work in the academic consortium eSMCs Archived 2012-11-02 at the Wayback Machine, an EU funded project to investigate the role of sensorimotor contingencies in cognition.
He is involved as principal investigator with the Marie-Curie Initial Training Network TESIS — Towards an Embodied Science of InterSubjectivity.