!!!Thomas Bäck
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__Present and Previous Positions__
* 2002, 12 - present Full Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands
* 2019, 09 - present  Chief Scientist, NORCE Norwegian Research Center, Grimstad, Norway.
* 1997, 01 - 2000, 12  Director, Center for Applied Systems Analysis, Informatik Centrum Dortmund, Germany.
* 1996, 09 - 2002, 11  Associate Professor, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Netherlands.
* 1994, 05 - 1996, 12  Senior Researcher, Center for Applied Systems Analysis, Informatik Centrum Dortmund, Germany.
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
* 2022  IEEE Fellow
* 2021 Member of KNAW (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Amsterdam, Netherlands
* 2020 - 2022 Visiting Professor at Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
* 2020 - 2023   Adjunct Professor, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
* 2015  IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award
* 2003  Fellow, International Society of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
* 1995  Best PhD thesis award, German society of computer science (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.)
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[Curriculum Vitae |User/Bäck_Thomas/CV]
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