Chris Adami

Christoph Adami
Born	August 30, 1962 (1962-08-30) (age 53) Brussels, Belgium
Residence	United States
Nationality	Germany
Fields	Evolutionary Biology and Physics
Institutions	Stony Brook University California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory Keck Graduate Institute Michigan State University
Alma mater	University of Bonn Stony Brook University
Academic advisors	Gerald E. Brown
Doctoral students	Charles Ofria
Known for	Negative quantum entropy Digital evolution Avida
Notable awards	Fairchild Prize Fellowship (1992) Caltech President's Fund Award (1996) NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2002) Fellow of the AAAS (2012)

Christoph Carl Herbert "Chris" Adami (born August 30, 1962) is a professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, as well as professor of Physics and Astronomy, at Michigan State University. Adami was born 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.; Taylor, C. (1998). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press.
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" (PDF). Nature 423: 139–144. Bibcode:2003Natur.423..139L. doi:10.1038/nature01568. PMID 12736677.

References

↑ "Chris Adami bio". anderson.ucla.edu. 2008.
↑ Adami, C. (2006). "Digital Genetics: unravelling the genetic basis of evolution". Nature Reviews Genetics 7 (2): 109–118. doi:10.1038/nrg1771.
↑ "MSU earns record number of AAAS Fellows". news.msu.edu. December 14, 2011.

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