Marco Tomassini
University of Lausanne Switzerland

Marco Tomassini is a professor of Computer Science at the Information Systems Department of the Business and Economics Faculty of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He graduated in physical and chemical sciences and got a Doctor's degree in Theoretical Chemistry from the University of Perugia, Italy, working on computer simulations of condensed matter systems. After some years doing research on crystal and molecular physics, he switched to computer science, contributing especially in the fields of parallel computing, heuristics for difficult optimization problems, and cellular automata modeling. His current research interests are centered around game-theoretical models and human behavior in laboratory experiments, and the network dimension of complex socio-economical systems. M. Tomassini has been Program Chair or organizer of several international events and has published more than 250 scientific papers and several authored and edited books in the above fields. In 2010 he was awarded the EvoStarAwardin recognition of outstanding contributions to Evolutionary Computation.