
Payam Zahadat received her Master and PhD degrees in Artificial Intelligence (Computer Science and Engineering) from Shiraz University, Iran in 2005 and 2011 respectively. She has currently a postdoc position at the Artificial Life Lab of the Department of Zoology, University of Graz, and works in the EU-funded projects SYMBRION, REPLICATOR, and CoCoRo. Her research interests include theoretical analysis and modeling and also applications in the field of evolutionary algorithms, gene regulatory networks, self-organization in multi-agent systems and swarms, and multi-modular robotics.