Matthew Egbert

Dr Matthew Egbert is a lecturer in Computer Science in the Faculty of Science at The University of Auckland. He completed his BSc in Computer Science at the University of St Andrews in Fife, Scotland. After working in industry, Matthew returned to academia, completing a MSc and then PhD in the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems programme at the University of Sussex, England. He uses computational models to study the intelligent behaviour demonstrated by natural systems, with current projects that focus upon (i) how metabolism-based behaviours could have facilitated the origins of life; and (ii) developing a non-computationalist, sensorimotor understanding of cognition. Matthew’s other interests include evolutionary robotics, the enactive approach to understanding life and mind, cybernetics and artificial life.