Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK
Andrew Adamatzky is a Professor of Unconventional Computing and Director of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He conducts research in molecular computing, reaction-diffusion computing, collision-based computing, cellular automata, slime mold computing, massively parallel computation, applied mathematics, complexity, nature-inspired optimization, collective intelligence and robotics, bionics, computational psychology, nonlinear science, novel hardware, and future and emergent computation. He has authored seven books, the most notable being ‘Reaction-Diffusion Computing’, ‘Dynamics of Crow Minds’, and ‘Physarum Machines’. He has also edited thirty-five books in computing, the most notable being ‘Collision Based Computing’, ‘Game of Life Cellular Automata’, and ‘Memristor Networks’. Additionally, he has produced a series of influential artworks published in the atlas ‘Silence of Slime Mould’. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Journal of Cellular Automata’, the ‘Journal of Unconventional Computing’, and the `Journal of Biological and Chemical Information Processing’ as well as the Editor-in-Chief of the ‘Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems’ and ‘Parallel Processing Letters’.