About me

Workshop Organising Committees

Co-Organiser, Fourth Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE4) at the ALIFE 2021 conference (Prague, Czech Republic/Online, 2021)
Co-Organiser, Third Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE3) at the ALIFE 2018 conference (Tokyo, Japan, 2018)
Lead Co-Organiser, Second Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE2) at the ALIFE XV conference (Cancún, Mexico, 2016).
Lead Co-Organiser, Workshop on Open-Ended Evolution (OEE1) at the ECAL 2015 conference (York, UK, 2015).
Lead Co-Organiser and Chair, Artificial Life and the Web (WebAL1) Workshop at ALIFE 14 (New York, NY, 2014).
Co-Organiser, track on open-ended evolution at the Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Winchester, UK, 2008).
Lead Co-Organiser and Chair, Workshop on the Co-evolution of Brains and Bodies at the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life (Portland, Oregon, 2000).

Conference Organising Committee (Keynote Liaison): 2018 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2018), Tokyo, Japan
Conference Organising Committee (Technical Chair), European Conference on Artificial Life 2015 (ECAL 2015), York, UK

Member of the Review Editorial Board for the Computational Intelligence section of the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2014-2021).
Member of the Guest Editorial Board for the two-part special issue of the Artificial Life journal on Open-Ended Evolution, volume 25 issues 1-2 (2019).
Reviewer for too many journals to keep track of, including Adaptive Behavior, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, BioSystems, Connection Science, Ecological Informatics, Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Theory in Biosciences.

I have served on the programme committee of over 50 conferences over the years:

International Conference on Artificial Life: ALIFE 2021, ALIFE 2020, ALIFE 2019, ALIFE 2018, ALIFE 15 (2016), ALIFE 14 (2014), ALIFE 13 (2012), ALIFE 12 (2010), ALIFE 11 (2008), ALIFE 10 (2006), ALIFE 9 (2004), ALIFE 8 (2002), ALIFE 7 (2000)
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: GECCO 2018, GECCO 2017, GECCO 2016, GECCO 2015, GECCO 2014, GECCO 2013, GECCO 2012, GECCO 2011, GECCO 2010, GECCO 2009, GECCO 2008, GECCO 2007, GECCO 2006, GECCO 2005
European Conference on Artificial Life: ECAL 2017, ECAL 2015, ECAL 2013, ECAL 2011, ECAL 2007, ECAL 2005
International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior: SAB2014, SAB2012, SAB2010, SAB’08, SAB’06, SAB’04, SAB’02
IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation: IEEE CEC 2011, IEEE CEC 2010, IEEE CEC 2009
IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life: IEEE ALIFE 2019, IEEE ALIFE 2011, IEEE ALIFE 2009
Other conferences: ALIA 2016, ALIA 2014, CoSMoS 2015, ACALCI 2015, Bionetics 2011, Bio-ADIT2006, Bio-ADIT2004, evoMUSART2004, Workshop on Morphologies, Motion and Cognition