Chris Adami

Christoph Carl Herbert Adami is a professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, as well as professor of Physics and Astronomy, at Michigan State University. Adami was born August 30, 1962 in Brussels, Belgium, and graduated from the European School of Brussels I. He obtained a Diplom in Physics from the University of Bonn and an MA and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Stony Brook University in 1991.^[1] He is best known for his work on Avida, an artificial life simulator used to study evolutionary biology ,^[2] and for applying the theory of information to physical and biological systems. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.

Honors

He received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal while serving at JPL, and was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2012.^[3]

Works

• Adami, C.; Belew, R., Kitano, H. and C. Taylor (1998). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press.  Cite uses deprecated parameters (help)
• Adami, C. (1998). Introduction to Artificial Life. Springer Verlag. 
• Lenski, R. E.; Ofria, C.; Pennock, R. T.; Adami, C. (2003). "The evolutionary origin of complex features". Nature 423: 139–144. doi:10.1038/nature01568. 

External links

• Adami's website at Michigan State University
• List of publications at Google Scholar
• The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Adaptive Features 2003 Nature Paper
• TED Talk (2011)

References