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Living systems exhibit a number of remarkable properties including self-organisation, adaptation, reproduction and evolution. To understand how these properties arise we need to move beyond a focus on the composition of biological systems, to consider their internal relationships or organisation. I am interested in approaching biology from a systemic perspective, i.e. how do the properties of biological systems emerge from underlying dynamic processes and their patterns of organisation? In doing this, I use theory and computation, drawing on traditions of systemic theory, incorporating approaches from complex systems as well as contemporary systems biology. The lessons we learn from the study of biological systems are of great relevance to other complex systems and I am involved in offering biological perspectives in a wide range of interdisciplinary contexts, spanning the sciences, social science and the humanities. These include the use of bio-inspired algorithms in engineering, the understanding of complex phenomenon in social systems, and in the relevance of complexity to forms of narrative. I work in the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis (YCCSA) – an interdisciplinary research environment facilitating collaborative interactions across many different departments at York including Maths, Chemistry, Computer Science, Electronics, Environment and Management. I welcome interest from prospective research students and postdoctoral fellows from a variety of backgrounds who are interested in the challenge of working on complex systems in a dynamic collaborative interdisciplinary environment.