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I am a biochemist (now retired) at the CNRS in Marseilles, formerly Birmingham (UK). I have an h-index of 66 (Google Scholar), and an Erdős number of 3, via Jorge Soto-Andrade and Winnie Li (a bit of a cheat, really, as I'm not a mathematician and barely understand the mathematics in the papers coauthored with Jorge Soto).
Main interests: Biochemistry, especially enzymes, metabolic regulation, self-organization, metabolic control analysis, definition of life, biochemical evolution; physical chemistry; history and philosophy of science; Chile, and Latin America in general.
On any page, on any topic, if I see a red link I try to find a way to make it blue.