Keynote Lectures

Andrew Adamatzky is Professor in Unconventional Computing in the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Unconventional Computing Laboratory, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. He does research in reaction-diffusion computing, cellular automata, physarum computing, massive parallel computation, applied mathematics, collective intelligence and robotics, bionics, computational psychology, non-linear science, novel hardware, and future and emergent computation.

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Christian Schroer is leading the scientific programme of the synchrotron radiation source PETRA III and is a professor for X-ray nanoscience and X-ray optics at the University of Hamburg. His main field of research is X-ray microscopy and X-ray optics that have wide range of applications in physics, chemistry, the life, materials and geosciences, as well as in nanotechnology. Schroer made his doctoral studies in mathematical physics. After a visit as postdoctoral fellow to the University of Maryland, he worked as a research and teaching associate at RWTH Aachen University in the field of X-ray optics and microscopy. Finishing his habilitation in 2004, he joined DESY in Hamburg as a staff scientist. From 2006 to 2014, he was professor for structural physics of condensed matter at Technische Universität Dresden, before he moved back to Hamburg to take on his current position. As leading scientist of PETRA III, he works on the strategic development of the facility. In particular, he led the development of the science case and the conceptual design of PETRA IV, DESY’s planned ultra-low emittance source. As X-ray microscopist, he is working on DESY’s imaging strategy and is cofounder and speaker of Helmholtz Imaging, a platform of the Helmholtz Incubator on Information and Data Science. His scientific group develops X-ray microscopy for synchrotron radiation sources and X-ray free-electron lasers.