People
Discover who makes the lab go roundThe MINT Lab is the world’s first laboratory in the philosophy of plant signaling and behavior (or: plant neurobiology).
We are a multidisciplinary research group with members from all over the world interested in questions about plant intelligence. Our research spans the scientific enterprise, from behavioral experiments with climbing beans and pea plants to fundamental questions at the intersection of the biological and cognitive sciences. MINT Lab members and collaborators come from a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives, and bring with them an eclectic array of methods and ideas.
MINT Lab Members
Current Members
Paco Calvo
Lab Director
Paco is the Director of the MINT Lab and a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Murcia, Spain.
Vicente Raja
Research Fellow
Vicente is a post-doctoral researcher and specializes in Ecological Psychology.
Miguel Segundo-Ortin
Research Fellow
Miguel is a post-doctoral researcher and philosopher of cognitive science at the University of Murcia.
Johnny Lee
Research Fellow
Johnny is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, UK, and currently doing research at the MINT Lab.
Natalie Lawrence
PR and Science Communicator
Natalie is a science communicator who helped Paco write Planta Sapiens.
Carla Cao
PhD Candidate
Carla is a PhD candidate focusing on plant acoustics, plant cognition, music cognition, and experimental composition.
Aditya Ponkshe
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Adi is a Post-Doctoral Researcher who has spearheaded the bean and pea plant experiments.
Anna Finke
PhD Candidate
Anna researches how consciousness and intelligence relates beyond the individual to the group-level in forests.
Daniel García Simón
PhD Candidate
Daniel is a PhD candidate focusing on question of scientific replication and how to address these issues.
Former Members
Jacobo Blancas
PhD Candidate
Jacobo was a PhD candidate at the University of Zaragoza in Spain and worked on the pea plant replicational experiments.
Adrian Frazer
PhD Candidate
Adrian is a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut, USA, and studies fluid and plasma turbulence.
Nkiru Onwuasoanya Martínez
Graduate Researcher
Nkiru is a graduate researcher at the University of Murcia.
Emma Martín Álvarez
Graduate Researcher
Emma is a graduate researcher at the University of Murcia.
Visitors
Verbena Vignotto
2024
Verbena is from Italy and she is visiting us in Spring 2024 as part of her Masters.
Clément Dauvissat
2023
Clement is from France and is visiting us in Spring/Summer 2023 as part of his Erasmus.
Yasmine Azafzaf
2022
Yasmine came from the University of Kassel, Germany and visited us as part of her Erasmus.
Laura and Mikko Puumala
2022
Laura and Mikko came from the Univerity of Turku in Finland to visit us.
Margherita Bianchi
2022
Margherita came from the Sapienza Università di Roma in Italy to visit us.
Veronica Cavedagna
2022
Veronica came from the University di Pisa-Florencia to visit us.
Josefina Sommer
2021
Josefina came from the Julius-Maximilian University at Würzburg, Germany to visit us.
Linda Pesenti
2019-2020
Linda came from the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy, to visit us.
Mona Maidhof
2019-2020
Mona came from the University of Stuttgart in Germany to visit us.
Filipe Pirl
2016
Filipe came from Humboldt University, Germany, to visit us.
Uliana Strugovshchikova
2019
Uliana came from the Insitute of Philosophy at the Russian Academy to visit us.
Rogy Holghoomi
2018-2019
Rogy came from Urmia University, Iran, to visit us.
Kristi Onzik
2018
Kristi came from the University of California Davis, USA, to visit us.
