We're sorry to hear that the inventor of the genetic algorithm, John H. Holland, has passed away at 86. He was a pioneer in the study of complex adaptive systems and an inspirational source for many researchers including our research group. The importance of his work cannot be emphasized enough and it will certainly continue to influence generations of researchers that are yet to come.

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This December Dr. Brian Goldman, a Researcher of BEACON, an NSF Center for the Study of Evolution in Action which is headquartered at the MSU (Michigan State University), joined the HeuristicLab Team for a few days.

The HeuristicLab Team is expanding further and proud to announce another new team member, Sebastian Raggl.

Sebastian completed his master studies at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria last year. Now he is supporting the team in developing optimization models and algorithms for complex problems in the domains of production and logistics.