Margherita Bianchi obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome. Her research focused on the philosophical implications of plant behavior and cognition. During her doctoral studies, she also spent a visiting period at the MINT Lab, University of Murcia. She subsequently joined the Mind(the)Plant Lab at the University of Padua as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Her research interests include philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, and biosemiotics.