Ioan NEGRUȚIU graduated in agricultural engineering and biology. He is presently professor emeritus at the ENS de Lyon, France and Honorary Member of the Institut universitaire de France and of the Romanian Academy. In his research, after completing a doctoral thesis at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and post-doctoral positions and sabbaticals at the University of Paris-Orsay, INRA de Versailles, Friedrich Mischer Institute, and Caltech, he became interested in the reproduction and evolution of plants and the molecular mechanisms of floral diversity. These questions address issues related to the origins of agriculture and the stewardship of primary resources: biomass, soil, water. His teaching experience has covered molecular genetics, epigenetics and genomics, plant development and evolution, biodiversity and biological resources, as well as the history of science and contemporary problems of science and society. In 2011, he organized the “Resources” conference in Lyon, dedicated to updating of the multidisciplinary understanding of the resource-related issues, and he created in 2012 the Michel Serres Institute for Resources and Public Goods (http://institutmichelserres.ens-lyon.fr). On these grounds, he contributed to launching the Anthropocene Curriculum in 2013, a joint initiative of the Max-Planck Institute and HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin and is developing research tools to assess the systemic, indivisible, and reciprocal health of ecosystems, society, and people.