Life as it could be

Dr. Karine Miras is an Assistant Professor in the Bioinspired Robotics Lab at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, working at the intersection of Evolutionary Robotics and Artificial Life. Her research has the goal of advancing robot autonomous systems and also deepening our understanding of biological evolution. At the core of her work is exploring how environments shape the traits of evolving organisms, and how developmental processes can be embedded directly into the genetic representations of artificial life forms.

"I'm interested in understanding what allows for the evolution of complex life through the study of artificial life."