Christoph Adami
| Christoph Adami | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 30, 1962 (age 55) Brussels, Belgium |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | Germany |
| Alma mater |
University of Bonn Stony Brook University |
| Known for | Negative quantum entropy Digital evolution Avida |
| Awards |
Fairchild Prize Fellowship (1992) NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal (2002) Fellow of the AAAS (2012) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Evolutionary Biology and Physics |
| Institutions |
Stony Brook University Michigan State University |
| Academic advisors | Gerald E. Brown |
| Doctoral students | Charles Ofria |
Fairchild Prize Fellowship (1992)
Caltech
Stony Brook University
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Christoph Carl Herbert "Chris" Adami (born August 30, 1962) is a professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, as well as professor of Physics and Astronomy, at Michigan State University. Adami was born in Brussels, Belgium, and graduated from the European School of Brussels I. He obtained a Diplom in Physics from the University of Bonn and an MA and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Stony Brook University in 1991. . Adami was a Division Prize Fellow in the lab of Steven E. Koonin at the California Institute of Technology from 1992-1995, and was subsequently on the Caltech faculty as a Senior Research Associate. Before joining Michigan State University, he was a professor of Applied Life Sciences at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, California. Adami is best known for his work on Avida, an artificial life simulator used to study evolutionary biology,, and for applying the theory of information to physical and biological systems. Together with Nicolas J. Cerf, Adami made significant advances in the quantum theory of information in the late 1990s.
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