Em Marta Lenartowicz

Em M. Lenartowicz holds a PhD in humanistic management with backgrounds in social epistemology, complexity studies, theoretical linguistics, and philosophy of mind. In her work, she seeks to advance the underpinnings that govern the evolution of intelligence in human cognitive systems at multiple scales. She is interested in the philosophy of cognitive science and conceptual approaches to the evolution of intelligence, cognitive development, distributed cognition, and collective consciousness.

From 2014 to 2024, Lenartowicz participated in several interdisciplinary research projects at CLEA, focusing on collective intelligence and cognition. In 2015-2018 she was the managing director of our Global Brain Institute, in 2018-2021 the designer and first director of the Postgraduate School of Thinking VUB, and in 2021-2024 the principal of CLEA's spinoff educational outreach initiative, Buckminster College. She taught "Complexity and Evolution" and "Technology and Society" courses at the Department of Philosophy VUB and "The Locus of Thought" and "Thinking Studio" classes at the School of Thinking. For a few years, she was hosting the CLEA open seminar series.

In 2025, Lenartowicz was appointed to the Steering Committee of the United Nations' "AI for Good" Impact Initiative.

She is also a member of the executive fellowship of NuNet, a project founded by two CLEA researchers, Dr. Kabir Veitas and Dr. Weaver D.R. Weinbaum. NuNet aims to build a global economy of decentralised computing, democratising access to computing resources worldwide.

Lenartowicz also publishes literary fiction and is (slowly) learning to play the cello.

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