Information

Contact

Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group,
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics,
University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK

email: mde@matthewegbert.ac.uk
Mobile Phone: +44 (0)7794-319-429
Lab Phone: +44 (0)1273 872948
Lab Fax: +44 (0)1273 678535

Research Interests

Origins of life, Autonomy, Self-maintaining Systems, Autopoiesis,
Systems Biology, Theoretical Biology, Philosophy of Biology, Cognition

Education

Ph.D., Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, (expected Fall 2010)
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK
Thesis: Hierarchies of Self-maintaining Systems
Adviser: Dr Ezequiel Di Paolo and Dr Inman Harvey
Committee: Dr Inman Harvey and Dr Anil Seth

M.Sc. (Hons.), Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, Sept. 2007
University of Sussex
Brighton, BN1 9QJ, UK
Thesis: On the capabilities of metabolic networks
Adviser: Dr Ezequiel Di Paolo

B.Sc., Computer Science, 2001
St. Andrews University
St. Andrews, KY16 9ET, UK