Christoph Adami

Christoph Adami is a professor of Physics and Astronomy, as well as professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, at Michigan State University. He obtained his PhD and M.A. in theoretical physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as a Diplom in Physics from Bonn University (Germany). His main research focus is Darwinian evolution, which he studies at different levels of organization (from simple molecules to brains). He has pioneered the application of methods from information theory to the study of evolution, and designed the “Avida” system that launched the use of digital life as a tool for investigating basic questions in evolutionary biology. When not overly distracted by living things, he studies the fate of classical and quantum information in black holes. He wrote the textbook “Introduction to Artificial Life” (Springer, 1998), and is the recipient of NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal as well as a fellow of the AAAS