An expert in the application of computational methods in interdisciplinary investigations into the fundamentals of life and cognition.

Placements:

Associate Editor of Adaptive Behavior
Associate Editor of Cognitive Systems Research

2025--ongoing Director of Te Ao Mārama: Centre for Fundamental Inquiry, Research Centre, University of Auckland
2016--ongoing Principal Investigator, Centre for Computational Evolution, University of Auckland

July 2014 – January 2016
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

October 2013 – July 2014
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Research Associate, School of Computer Science

October 2012 – October 2013
Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Research Associate, Bio Systems Analysis Group, Institute of Computer Science

May 2011 – December 2011
University of Sussex, UK
Research Associate, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, Dept. of Informatics

Distinctions/Honours:
- Principal Investigator, Centre for Computational Evolution (https://www.compevol.auckland.ac.nz/en.html), University of Auckland
- Chair of Education and Outreach, Board of Directors, International Society for Artificial Life (2017-2021) (http://www.alife.org/)
- Associate Editor of Adaptive Behavior (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/adb)

Qualifications:
DPhil Department of Informatics, University of Sussex; MSc (hons) Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, University of Sussex; BSc Computer Science St Andrews University

Areas of Expertise:
- Artificial life
- Post-cognitivist artificial intelligence
- Enactive cognitive science
- Computational modelling in interdisciplinary research