Adaptive Systems / BioComputation Research Groups
Science and Technology Research Institute
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
AL10 9AB
United Kingdom
E-mail: j.f.knabe@gmail.com
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Dr. Johannes F. Knabe Adaptive Systems / BioComputation Research Groups Science and Technology Research Institute University of Hertfordshire College Lane Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB United Kingdom E-mail: j.f.knabe@gmail.com |
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Home address |
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Full name |
Johannes Florian Knabe | ||
Web page |
www.panmental.de | ||
Nationality |
German |
| Work experience |
April 2006 - now |
Visiting lecturer in the University of Hertfordshire's School of Computer Science: Teaching, supervision of final year students, marking various exams, assistance in conference organisation |
April 2005 - June 2005 |
Placement (internship) at the Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, team Intelligent Dynamics |
April 2004 - July 2004 |
Teaching assistant (Tutor) for the lecture Theoretical Computer Science |
April 2003 - July 2003 |
Teaching assistant (Tutor) for the lecture Programming in Logic |
October 2000 - August 2001 |
Alternative civilian service at German Youth Hostel Association (instead of military service) |
August 1998 - June 2000 |
Self-employed, database systems and web page developer |
| Education |
October 2005 - June 2009 |
PhD in Computer Sciece, at the Adaptive Systems and BioComputation Research Groups, Science and Technology Research Institute, University of Hertfordshire, UK. (Details available, e.g. research focus.) |
August 2003 - December 2003 |
Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. (Semester abroad, supported by the EU's Erasmus exchange programme) |
October 2001 - March 2005 |
Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Degree: BSc in Cognitive Science. Grade: Excellent with distinction. (Details available, e.g. areas of emphasis and courses.) |
1991 - June 2000 |
Helmholtz Gymnasium Hilden. Degree: Abitur (University-entrance diploma, A-levels) |
| Meetings |
August 5-8, 2008
| ALife XI, Eleventh International Conference on Artificial Life. Oral presentation of Evolution and Morphogenesis of Differentiated Multicellular Organisms: Autonomously Generated Diffusion Gradients for Positional Information. |
June 1-6, 2008
| CEC 2008, Congress on Evolutionary Computation, part of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence. Oral presentation of Regulation of Gene Regulation - Smooth Binding with Dynamic Affinity affects Evolvability. |
October 1-6, 2007
| ICSB 2007, 8th Int. Conference on Systems Biology. Co-organisation of the tutorial Genetic Algorithms and their Application to the Artificial Evolution of Genetic Regulatory Networks (slides are available) and presentation of a poster with an overview of my research especially focusing on biologists, entitled "In silico Evolution of Biological Clocks with Genetic Regulatory Networks". Supported by an International Travel Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering. |
August 29-31, 2007
| IPCAT, 7th int. workshop on Information Processing in Cells And Tissues. Oral presentation of Unruly Motifs - No Convergent Evolution of Network Topologies. |
April 1-5, 2007
| IEEE-ALife'07, the 1st IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life. Oral presentation of work on The Essential Motif That Wasn't There: Topological and Lesioning Analysis of Evolved Genetic Regulatory Networks. Supported by an IEEE Travel Grant. |
July 26-28, 2006
| GWAL-7, the 7th German Workshop on Artificial Life. Oral presentation of work on Evolutionary Robustness of Differentiation in Genetic Regulatory Networks. |
June 3-7, 2006
| ALifeX 2006 conference. Oral presentation of work on "Evolving Biological Clocks using Genetic Regulatory Networks". |
April 8-10, 2005
| RoboCup German Open 2005. Humanoid demonstration game, team Brainstormers Osnabrueck, with modified RoboSapien robots. |
June 27 - July, 3, 2004
| RoboCup International Competition. 2D Simulation, team Brainstormers Osnabrueck, runner-up. |
April 14-16, 2004
| Attendee at 6th German Workshop on Artificial Life (GWAL-6) |
March 18-24, 2004
| Presentation of our project SpamStop at the computer fair CeBit 2004. |
March 7-14, 2003
| Attendee at summer school Interdisciplinary College 2003, focus theme: Applications, Brains & Computers. |
March 1-8, 2002
| Attendee at summer school Interdisciplinary College 2002, focus theme: Autonomy and Emotion. |