I am a Research Fellow in the Intelligent Systems research group, Department of Electronics, University of York and the York Centre for Complex Systems Analysis. For details of research projects I am involved with, please see this page. You can also find a brief biography at my staff page.

My research interests include evolutionary computation, non-standard computing, dynamical systems, evolvability, systems biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. If you wish to know more about my work in these areas, or are interesting in collaborating, please don't hesitate to contact me.

When I'm not doing research, my interests include photography, jazz, real ale, travel, languages, cats and geese.

Professional Activities

• IEEE Senior Member 2010-present, Member 2001-2010.
• Member, IEEE Technical Committee on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, 2009-present.
• Organiser, Frontiers of Natural Computing workshop, September 2012.
• Programme Chair, 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Cells and Tissues, IPCAT 2012.
• Co-chair, Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics, WCCI 2012.
• Co-chair, Special Session on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, CEC 2011.
• Publicity Chair, International Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES) 2010.
• Co-chair, Special Session on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics, WCCI 2010.
• Chair, Special Session on Artificial Biochemical Networks, CEC 2009.
• Organising Committee member, Information Processing in Cells and Tissues (IPCAT) 2005.