Bio:

Frank Dignum got his PhD at the VU in Amsterdam. Immediately after that he went to Swaziland (Africa) to set up the computer science department. After a year in Portugal at the Technical University of Lisbon, he spent almost eight years at the Technical University of Eindhoven before coming to Utrecht University in 2000. Since 2013 he is a honorary principal research fellow of the University of Melbourne and since 2017 also visiting full professor of the Technical University of Prague. He has been the technical coordinator of two successfully completed EU projects (MEMO and ALIVE). He is well known for his work on norms and agent communication and for socially intelligent agents in serious games. Currently these more social agents are also used in social simulations to support policy making. He has organized many workshops and conferences (amongst which AAMAS and ECAI) and given tutorials and invited presentations at most major conferences and summer schools. Since 2014 he is a EurAI fellow. Has been in the IFAAMAS board and just started the International Journal on Socio-Cognitive Systems. On March 2019 his H-index is 54.