Thomas Bäck#
| Membership Number: | 6095 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/thomas-back#tab-1 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6768-1478 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasbaeck/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2002, 12 - present Full Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands
- 2019, 09 - present Chief Scientist, NORCE Norwegian Research Center, Grimstad, Norway.
- 1997, 01 - 2000, 12 Director, Center for Applied Systems Analysis, Informatik Centrum Dortmund, Germany.
- 1996, 09 - 2002, 11 Associate Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands.
- 1994, 05 - 1996, 12 Senior Researcher, Center for Applied Systems Analysis, Informatik Centrum Dortmund, Germany.
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial inteligence
- Data-driven evolutionary optimization
- Computational intelligence
- Multi-objective evolutionary optimization
- Natural computing
- Evolutionary computation
Honours and Awards
- 2022 IEEE Fellow
- 2021 Member of KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2020 - 2022 Visiting Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
- 2020 - 2023 Adjunct Professor, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
- 2015 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
- 2003 Fellow, International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
- 1995 Best PhD thesis award, German society of computer science (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.)
