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- Born, 23-09-1963, Rome (Italy)
- Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
- National Research Council (CNR), Roma
- Via S. Martino della Battaglia 44, 00185, Roma, Italy
- Phone: ++39-06-44595233
- Fax : ++39-06-44595234
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EDUCATION AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
- Head, Laboratory of Autonomous Robotics and Artificial Life, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, National
Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy, 2002-current
- Director, Rome Node of the Centre for Robotics and Neural System (UOP-CRNS), University of Plymouth, U.K., 2009-current
- Researcher Director, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy, 2006-current
- Senior Researcher, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, National
Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy, 2002-2005
- Fellow, University of New South Wales, Canberra,
Australia, November-December 2004.
- Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin (Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin), May-July 2003.
- Head, Division of Neural Systems and
Artificial Life, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy,
1994-2002
- Visiting Researcher, SONY Computer Science
Laboratory, Sony Inc., Tokyo, Japan, 1997
- Visiting Researcher, Laboratory of Microcomputing,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996 & 1997
- Researcher, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy, 1988-2001
- Research Fellow, with Prof. Jeffrey Elman, Centre
for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, USA., 1987
- Consultant, Voice Processing Laboratory, Olivetti
S.p.A. Torino, Italy, Development of an automatic system for natural languange processing,
1987
- Research Fellow, with Prof. Domenico Parisi,
Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence, National Research Council
(CNR), Roma, Italy, 1985-1987.
- Laurea (Master Degree) in Literature &
Phylosophy (with distinction), Thesis on: A computational model of natural language
processing, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy, 1986
RESEARCH PROJECTS
- Head, CNR-ISTC Node, European Integrated Project I-Talk: Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots (IST-214668), 2008-current
- Coordinator of the European Integrated Project ECAgents:
Embodied and Communicating Agents (IST-2004-001940), 2004-2008
- Head, CNR-ISTC
Node, European Integrated Project ECAgents:
Embodied and Communicating Agents (IST-2004-001940), 2004-2008
- Head, CNR-ISTC Node, European Project on SWARM-BOTS: Swarms of
Self-Assembling Artifacts (IST-2000-31010), 2001-2005
- Head, CNR-ISTC Node, Italian Project on Action
and perception in the construction of the cognitive world, Grant
RBNE01SZB4 from the FIRB/MIUR, 2003-current.
- Head, CNR-ISTC Node, Italian Project on Multiagent
system with fixed and mobile robot platforms (ROBOCARE), MIUR, Italy,
2002-current.
- Coordinator and head of the CNR-IP research unit, Coordinated Project on Real Time Computing,
National Research Council, Italy, 1999
- Head, Research Project on Development of
Complex Competencies in Ecological Neural Networks, Institute of Psychology, National
Research Council, Italy, 1997-2001.
- Head, Research Unit on Development of
Autonomous Agents Interacting with an External Environment, Coordinated Project on Real
Time Computing, National Research Council, Italy, 1997
- Head, Research Project on Evolutionary
Robotics Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Italy, 1995-1996
- Head, Research Project on Ecological Neural
Networks, Institute of Psychology, National Research Council, Italy, 1989-1994
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EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
LECTURING
- Associate Professor, Undergraduate course on Evolutionary Robotics,
University della Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy, 2000/2001, 2003-2004
- Associate Professor, Undergraduate course on Psychology, University
"LUMSA", Roma, 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003
- Associate Professor, Undergraduate course on Artificial Neural
Networks, University "LUMSA", Rome, Italy, 1998/1999 , 1999/2000
- Associate Professor, Undergraduate course on Educational
Technologies, University of L'Aquila, Italy, 1998/1999, 1999/2000
- Associate Professor, Undergraduate course on Computer Science,
University of L'Aquila, Italy, 1998/1999
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EXPERT POSITIONS
- Expert, V-VI-VII Framework Programme, European
Commission, IST, Future and Emerging Technology, Multimedia Content and Tools, 1999-present
- Expert for the PhD examination ("Information
Technology"), School of Computer Science, University of South Wales,
Australia,
July, 2004
- Expert for the PhD examination ("Adaptive Robotics"), Department Informatique, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne, Switzerland,
July 4, 2000
- Expert for the PhD examination ("Autonomous Mobile
Robotics"), Department Informatique, Ecole Polytechnique, Lausanne, Switzerland,
December 6, 1996
SCIENTIFIC PRIZES
- Outstanding student paper: Mazzapioda M., Cangelosi A., Nolfi S. (2009). Co-evolving Morphology and Control: A Distributed Approach. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, Trondhein, Norway, 18-21 May, 2009.
- Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics,
Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of American Publishers, Inc. Floreano D., Husband P., Nolfi S. (2008). Evolutionary Robotics. In Siciliano B. & Oussama Khatib (Eds.). Handbook of Robotics. Springer Verlag. pp. 1423-1451.
- Best Paper Award, Nolfi S. (2005). Behaviour as a complex adaptive system: On the role of self-organization in the development of individual and collective behaviour. First European Conference on Complex Systems, Paris 14-18 November 2005.
- Best Paper Award. Trianni V., Nolfi S.,
Dorigo M. (2004). Hole Avoidance: Experiments in coordinated motion on
rough terrain. The Eight International Conference on Intelligent
Autonomous Systems. 10-12 March 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherland.
- Best Paper Award. Tani J., Nolfi S.
(1998). Learning to perceive world as
articulated: An approach for hierarchical learning. The
Fifth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior
(SAB98), August 17-21, 1998, Zurich, Switzerland
