Thomas Schmickl
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E-Mail: thomas.schmickl@uni-graz.at
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Publications:Click here to see my research statement and my teaching statement.
I am currently affiliated as associate professor at the Department for Zoology at the University of Graz (Austria). Within this lab, I founded the Artificial Life Lab Graz.
My research fields are:
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Bio-inspired artificial collective intelligence within robot swarms (member of projects I-SWARM, SYMBRION and REPLICATOR).
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Application and re-embodiment of self-organized animal behavior in autonomous robots.
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Study of animal behavior, with strong emphasis on social insects (honeybees).
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Investigating the phenomena of self-organization and of swarm intelligence.
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Creating multi-agent models and simulations.
Please visit my modeling site with a lot of online-simulations of self-organized animal behavior here.
In addition to the topics mentioned above, I am also working on the following topics:
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Evolution (especially on the evolutionary aspects of animal behavior)
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Artificial life
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Ecological modeling
One of my favorite tasks is education. I (currently) give the following courses at the University of Graz (Austria) and at the University of Applied Sciences St. Poelten (Austria):
Spring semester:
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"Biological modeling" (self-organization, behavior, ecology and evolution) [3 hours/week]
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"Methods in the analysis of social systems" [1.5 hours/week]
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"Specific chapters of simulation I and II" [2 hours/week]
Fall semester:
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"Self-organization of biological systems" [2 hours/week]
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"Modelling the environment and the effects of civilization" [2 hours/week]
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"Methods in the analysis of social systems" [1.5 hours/week]
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"Specific chapters of simulation III and IV" [2 hours/week]
E-Mail: thomas.schmickl@uni-graz.at
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