In 2024, Prof. Dr. Franz Rothlauf received the SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award, which recognizes remarkable contributions to Evolutionary Computation (EC) when evaluated over a sustained period of at least 15 years. These contributions can include technical innovations, publications, leadership, teaching, mentoring, and service to the EC community. To celebrate these distinctions, Franz (as well as Anne Auger) kindly answered some questions reflecting on their contributions and views on evolutionary computation as well as their advice to young researchers in the field.
The full interview can be found in the newsletter of SIGEVO:
https://evolution.sigevo.org/issues/HTML/sigevolution-17-4/index.html
In July 2024, Franz Rothlauf has been awarded with the ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award. The awards goes to Professor Rothlauf in recognition of his fundamental and influential research on solution representations in evolutionary computation and of his extraordinary servie to ACM SIGEVO. The awards carries a monetary value of $1,000 and a plaque contributed by SIGEVO.
Further details on this prestigious award can be found at https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=ACM%20SIGEVO%20Outstanding%20Contribution%20Award
In acknowledgement of his accomplishments in education and science, the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, has awarded Dr. Philipp Goedeking the honorary professorship at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (JGU) upon the proposal of the Faculty of Law, Management and Economics. On Friday, 29 October 2021, Dr. Goedeking was solemnly handed over the certificate of appointment at the Presidential Office of the JGU.
Since the summer semester of 2015, Dr. Goedeking has been offering the lecture "Airline Strategies", which is complemented by seminars and project theses at the graduate level.
We are delighted to welcome Dr. Goedeking, a highly renowned and respected expert in the aviation industry, as an honorary professor at the faculty.
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