Service & esteem

Editorial roles, reviewing, committees and other indicators of peer esteem.

Editorial activities

Associate Editor of:

  • Memetic Computing (Springer), since 2025
  • IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, since 2024
  • Optimization, a speciality section of Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, since 2023
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, since 2023
  • Evolutionary Intelligence (Springer), since 2023
  • Applied Intelligence (Springer), since 2022
  • International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Wiley), since 2020
  • Mathematics (MDPI), since 2020

Special sessions, workshops and special issues

  • Special Session on Leveraging Emerging AI Paradigms in Biomedical Healthcare (AIiH 2024, 2025)
  • Workshop on Analysing Algorithmic Behaviour of Optimisation Heuristics (GECCO 2021–2024)
  • Track 8: Intelligent Systems and Supply Chains for Sustainable Development (IEEE ISTAS 2023)
  • Computational Intelligence for Sustainability (EVO* 2023–2024)
  • Applications of Nature-inspired Computing for Sustainability and Development (EVO* 2021–2022)
  • Recent Advances in Computational Intelligence Techniques and Applications (IEEE WCCI 2020)
  • Workshop on Memetic Computing (IEEE SSCI 2014)
  • Special issues in Int. J. Intelligent Systems (2020), Mathematics (2019–2021) and Applied Sciences (2020–2021)

Reviewing and committees

  • Grant reviewer for EPSRC and NSERC; member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
  • Journal reviewer, selected: IEEE TEVC, IEEE Trans. Cybernetics, Information Fusion, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, Information Sciences, Applied Soft Computing, Expert Systems with Applications, Soft Computing
  • Programme committees, selected: IEEE CEC and SSCI (2013–2026), EvoStar (2017–2026), GECCO (2019–2026), PPSN (2020–2026)

External examining and other international roles

  • Habilitation dissertation committee member, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
  • External examiner, PhD thesis, University of Sannio, Italy
  • External examiner, MSc thesis, Autonomous University of Querétaro, Mexico
  • Invited lecturer, DataSLO Summer School 2025, Norcia, Italy
  • Publication chair, IEEE ISTAS 2023; advisory committee member, ICIERA-2021

Honorary positions

  • Honorary Senior Research Fellow, De Montfort University, UK (24/08/2022 – 23/08/2026)

Memberships

See the CV.