Prof. Dr. Yves Duthen is a Research Professor of Artificial Life and Virtual Reality at IRIT lab, University of Toulouse 1-Capitole (France). He received his Ph.D. degree from the University Paul Sabatier in 1983 and the “French Habilitation” degree in 1993 to become full Professor. He has worked in image synthesis during the 1980’s and focused on Behavioral Simulation based on evolutionary mechanism since 1990. He has published
 about 130-refereed journal and conference papers and has directed 15 PhD theses. He has pioneered research in artificial life for building adaptive artificial creatures and focuses now on embedded metabolism and morphogenetic engineering. home page