Biography

PhD and Habilitation at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, then joined Warwick Business School in 2009. Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning an Optimization, Area Editor for the Journal of Heuristics and the Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis, Associate Editor for the Evolutionary Computation Journal. Programme Chair / Co-Chair of several conferences (e.g., Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2010, Parallel Problem Solving from Nature 2014, Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2026) and tracks at conferences. IEEE Fellow, Fellow of the International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences, Member of INFORMS, OR Society, ACM

Research Interests

Nature inspired optimisation; logistics and scheduling; multiobjective optimisation and decision making; optimisation in presence of uncertainty; simulation-based optimisation; Bayesian optimisation.