Also, we created artificial lives ourselves yesterday during the #ALIFE2023 excursion to teamLab's Future Park and Animals of Flowers, Symbiotic Live @ Sapporo Art Museum - say hi to my strawberry hat squit (and me)!

This morning, I presented our work on the evolution of dynamic collective behaviors by minimizing surprise #ALIFE2023. Despite being in the first session after last night's conference dinner, there was quite some audience! Thanks for showing up :)

I spent 2.5 days at Schloss Dagstuhl attending the GI dissertation award colloquium. There were plenty interesting talks about a variety of computer science-related topics on the program and I got to now many great researchers.

Spontaneously, I visited Museum Tinguely today. Jean #Tinguely was a Swiss sculptor who is known for his kinetic #art and #automata. The #sculpture in the fountain in front of the museum was only a small teaser of the works exhibited in the #museum.

2022 has been a year full of challenges and adventures. Highlights were the many travels this year. I’ve been in work trips to Philadelphia, Boston, Prague, and Brussels. It’s amazing to have a job allowing me to explore the world while doing something I love.