Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Matter: Nanoscience, Soft Matter, Philosophy

Michael te Vrugt is assistant professor of physics at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. Previously, he completed PhDs in theoretical physics and philosophy of science, both at the University of Münster in Germany, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge in UK. His main fields of research are nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, theory of soft condensed matter, and philosophy of physics. He is the author of more than 35 scientific articles and has received several awards for his work, including the Infineon PhD Award and the CRC 1459’s Young Researcher Award for Intelligent Matter.