Manuel Baltieri, Ph.D.

Manuel is a Chief Researcher at Araya and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Sussex. After graduating with a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering and Business Administration at the University of Trento, he received an M.Sc. in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and AI, both from the University of Sussex. Following that, he was awarded a JSPS/Royal Society postdoctoral fellowship, and worked in the Lab for Neural Computation and Adaptation at RIKEN CBS with Taro Toyoizumi, until he joined Araya at the end of 2021. His research interests include artificial intelligence and artificial life, theories of agency and individuality, origins of life, embodied cognition and decision making.