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. He is a core faculty member of the Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior (EEB) Program there.[1]
Christoph Adami | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 30, 1962 (age 62) Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn Stony Brook University |
| Known for | Negative quantum entropy Digital evolution Avida |
| Awards | Fairchild Prize Fellowship (1992) Caltech President's Fund Award (1996) NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2002) Fellow of the AAAS (2012) Fellow of the American Physical Society (2017) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary Biology and Physics |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University California Institute of Technology Michigan State University |
| Academic advisors | Gerald E. Brown |
| Doctoral students | Charles Ofria |
Education
editAdami 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.[2] Adami was a Division Prize Fellow in the lab of Steven E. Koonin at the California Institute of Technology from 1992-1995, and was subsequently on the Caltech faculty as a senior research associate.
Career
editBefore joining Michigan State University, he was a professor of Applied Life Sciences at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, California. Adami is best known for his work on Avida, an artificial life simulator used to study evolutionary biology,[3] and for applying the theory of information to physical and biological systems. Together with Nicolas J. Cerf, Adami made significant advances in the quantum theory of information in the late 1990s.
Honors
editHe received the NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal while serving at JPL, and was elected a Fellow of the AAAS in 2012.[4] He was also elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society[5] in 2017. On July 31, 2019, He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by The International Society for Artificial Life.[6]
Works
edit- Adami, C.; Belew, R.; Kitano, H.; Taylor, C. (1998). Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Artificial Life. MIT Press. ASIN 0262510995.
- Adami, C. (1998). Introduction to Artificial Life. Springer Verlag. ISBN 0387946462.
- Lenski, R. E.; Ofria, C.; Pennock, R. T.; Adami, C. (2003). "The evolutionary origin of complex features" (PDF). Nature. 423 (6936): 139–144. Bibcode:2003Natur.423..139L. doi:10.1038/nature01568. PMID 12736677. S2CID 4401833. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2013-08-20.
- Adami, Christoph (2024-01-16). The Evolution of Biological Information: How Evolution Creates Complexity, from Viruses to Brains (1st ed.). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-24116-6.
References
edit- ^ "EEB Core Faculty". EEB Program at MSU.
- ^ "Chris Adami bio". anderson.ucla.edu. Archived from the original on February 7, 2012.
- ^ Adami, C. (2006). "Digital Genetics: unravelling the genetic basis of evolution". Nature Reviews Genetics. 7 (2): 109–118. doi:10.1038/nrg1771. PMID 16418746. S2CID 2677823.
- ^ "MSU earns record number of AAAS Fellows". news.msu.edu. December 14, 2011.
- ^ "American Physical Society Announces 2017 Fellows". www.aps.org. Retrieved October 3, 2021.
- ^ "2019 ISAL Awards Winners". Retrieved October 3, 2021.
External links
edit- Adami's website at Michigan State University
- Adami's public site at Michigan State University
- List of publications at Google Scholar
- Adami's Blog "Spherical Harmonics"
- Adami's [HuffPost] Blog
- The Evolutionary Origin of Complex Adaptive Features Archived 2009-03-02 at the Wayback Machine 2003 Nature Paper
- Chris Adami at TED
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