About me

Keynote talks

The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2021). Weird Tales: Early Visions of Machines That Can Reproduce and Evolve, and Their Relevance Today (Prague, Czech Republic/Online, July 2021) [watch talk on YouTube].
Cross Labs Workshop on Innovation Science. Discovering Innovations in Real and Virtual Worlds (Tokyo, Japan/Online, April 2021) [watch talk on YouTube].

The International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) Award for Exceptional Service 2014.

Commendation for Good Practice from the Quality Assurance Committee of the University of London International Programmes, relating to my work in improving the organisational and pedagogical aspects of Goldsmiths’ International Programmes BSc and Diploma courses in Computing & Information Systems and Creative Computing (April, 2012).

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. September 2018. Hosted by Prof Piet Hut
BEACON Center, Michigan State University, USA. October 2016. Hosted by Prof Charles Ofria
Artificial Life Lab, Dublin City University, Ireland. October 2000. Hosted by Prof Barry McMullin
Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma, USA. March 2000. Hosted by Prof Tom Ray
Philosophy of Biology Group, University of the Basque Country, Spain. May 1999. Hosted by Prof Alvaro Moreno