Dr. Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari is associate professor at the GAME department of Gotland University.  Mirjam's main area of research is AI-driven game design. The research approach she has adopted includes exploration of the social multi-player game-design space through experimental implementations of prototypes where both novel and established AI-techniques are used. Her dissertation work (2009) explored characterization and story construction in MMO’s focusing semi-autonomous avatars. Before Mirjam went into research (2003) she was lead game programmer at Liquid Media in Stockholm. Her first brush with game research was in the applied research studio Zero-Game of the Interactive Institute in Sweden where she was technical lead (2004).