Career
He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and is head of the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at the Faculty of Science (CPNSS, hosted by the Niels Bohr Institute). His research interests are in philosophy of science, especially philosophy of biology, theoretical biology (especially morphogenesis and evolution, developmental systems, complex systems), artificial life, biosemiotics, and other areas within philosophy. Claus Emmeche was one of the organizers of a petition directed at Helge Sander"s education reforms, which the petition claimed undermined academic freedom by granting a broad majority of the management of universities to people from outside the academic community.
As of August, 2008, 35% of Danish academics had signed the petition.
By November, this figure had risen to about 50%.
