E-mail: natalio.krasnogor@newcastle.ac.uk
Natalio Krasnogor is Professor of Computing Science and Synthetic Biology, directs Newcastle’s Interdisciplinary Computing and Complex BioSystems (http://ico2s.org/) research group. Krasnogor holds a prestigious 10 years Chair in Emerging Technologies award from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering to explore DNA Data Storage and previously held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship in Synthetic Biology. Krasnogor works at the interface of Synthetic Biology, DNA/RNA nanotechnology, machine intelligence and unconventional computation. He is also interested in the simulation and modeling of complex networks in biological systems and previously worked in bioinformatics and structural bioinformatics (Google Scholar).
Krasnogor has been a regular visiting scientist at various international universities such as Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel) under its “Faculty of Natural Sciences Distinguished Scientist Visitors Program” under a Drozzor Visiting Professorship, the Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) under a “Morris Belking Visiting Professorship” at the Department of Molecular Genetics, The University of Granada (Spain) and The National University of Tucuman (Argentina).
Krasnogor is an editorial board member for Theoretical Computer Science - TCS-C (Elsevier), Natural Computing (Springer) and the International Journal of Unconventional Computing (Old City Publishing). Previously he was founding Technical Editor-in-Chief for the journal “Memetic Computing” (Springer), Associate Editor for the journal “Evolutionary Computation” (ACM-MIT Press), Editorial Board Member for “Current Opinion in Biotechnology” (Elsevier) and Editor-in-Chief for the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) 2011. Krasnogor has founded two companies, GitLife Biotech Ltd. where he is CTO and Working Set Ltd. where he is its CEO.
