Professor James Marshall
School of Computer Science
Professor of Theoretical and Computational Biology
Director of the Centre for Machine Intelligence
Member of the Complex Systems Modelling research group


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School of Computer Science
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
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- Profile
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I am an interdisciplinary researcher interested in behaviour, its mechanistic bases, and its evolution. With various colleagues I apply a variety of mathematical and computational approaches to understanding how and why behaviours evolve.
I am also interested in what engineering disciplines may learn from this study. Particular research interests include collective social insect behaviour, the evolution of social behaviour, and the application of decision theory to animal behaviour. Some of my research makes use of robotics to test these ideas.
- Research interests
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My research interests cover modelling of collective behaviour, particularly in social insects, evolutionary theory, decision theory, robotics, and theoretical neuroscience
- Publications
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- Grants
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Research grants
- ActiveAI: , EPSRC, 11/2019 - 10/2024, £953,584, as Co-PI
- Swarm Awareness, Government, 08/2018 - 08/2021, £226,567, as PI
- , EPSRC, 12/2016 - 06/2022, £2,128,934, as PI
- , EC - H2020, 08/2015 - 11/2020, £1,168,351, as PI
- Comparative neuroscience and computational neuroscience, Leverhulme Trust, 04/2018 - 07/2020, £72,016, as PI
- Analysing and modelling decision making in the honey bee brain, Royal Society, 03/2015 - 03/2017, £12,000, as PI
- , EPSRC, 03/2013 - 08/2016, £660,561, as PI
- , BBSRC, 10/2010 - 10/2012, £145,732, as PI
- , EPSRC, 08/2008 - 07/2012, £306,386, as Co PI
- AIBACS - Social Insects, Simulated Evolution and Biologically Inspired Algorithms, EPSRC, 01/2004 - 07/2006, £127,271, as Co-PI
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Editorial Board, Swarm Intelligence (2017-present)
- Associate Editor: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2013-2017)
- EPSRC Peer Review College Member (2010-present)
- Member of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship Panel College (2019-present)
- Associate Editor - PLoS one - 2009-2020
- Associate Editor - PLoS Computational Biology - 2020-present
- Founder Science Officer at Opteran Technologies