Invited Speakers

Christian Kerrigan

Christian Kerrigan is Director of Christian P Kerrigan Architecture, design and research consultancy based in London. Christian is a qualified architect, architectural technologist, artist, and entrepreneur. In 2006 he created 200 Year Continuum, an overarching title to collaborations and research focused on overlapping themes of technology, nature and time. In 2010 Christian was awarded first digital artist in residence at the V&A museum. Christian has collaborated with Professor Martin Hanczyc for over 10 years on various research projects. These include an ink and droplet technology project called ‘living drawings’ described in the paper ‘Chemotaxis and chemokinesis of living and non-living objects’, Advances in Unconventional Computing edited by Andrew Adamatsky.

Jitka Čejková

Jitka Čejková studied chemical engineering at University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, where she successfully defended her doctoral degree in 2010. She currently works as Associate Professor in the Chemical Robotics Laboratory at UCT Prague. She has postdoctoral experience from the University of Trento and the University of Tokyo. Her research focuses on how chemical engineers can contribute to artificial life research. Artificial life is the study of artificial systems that exhibit the behavioural characteristics of natural living systems. She focuses on the investigation of organic droplets with life-like behaviour and recently she proposed to call such droplets “liquid robots”. She is active in science communication both in the Czech Republic and abroad. She focuses primarily on popularization of research in the area of artificial life and the etymology of the word robot, which comes from Czech.

Martin Hanczyc

Martin Hanczyc is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Integrative Biology at the University of Trento, Italy and a Research Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque USA. He has published in the area of droplets, complex systems, evolution and the origin of life in specialized journals including JACS and Langmuir as well as PNAS and Science. Currently he heads the Laboratory for Artificial Biology, developing novel synthetic chemical systems based on the properties of living systems.

Page updated

Google Sites

Report abuse