Services
- Member of the Board of Directors of NORA (Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium) (2022-26)
- Member of ISAL (International Society for Artificial Life)
- Member of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems)
- Senior Member of IEEE
- Chair of IEEE CIS Task Force on Artificial Life and Complex Adaptive Systems (2022-26)
- Member of IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society)
- Member of IEEE CIS Task Force on Evolutionary Developmental Systems and Robotics
- Board Member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Norway
- Steering Committee of the NORA NeuroAI Special Interest Group (SIG)
Institutional
- Founder and Director of Østfold AI hub (2024-2025)
- Member of the PhD committee "The Digital Society" at Østfold University College (2023-2025)
- External advisor for Bachelor and Master programs in Robotics at the University of Oslo (2023-2024)
- Member of Program Council for the Master in Applied Computer and Information Technology (ACIT) at OsloMet, responsible for master specialization in Applied Artificial Intelligence (2018-2022)
- Founder and deputy head of the OsloMet AI Lab (2018-2022)
- Founder and deputy head (formerly head, 2017-18) of the Applied AI research group at OsloMet (2018-2022)
Events
- Workshop co-organizer, The Distributed Ciphers: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and their applications to intelligence at ALIFE 2025 in Kyoto, Japan, 2025
- Chair of the Artificial Life and Cooperative Intelliget Agents symposium at IEEE SSCI 2025, Trondheim, Norway, 2025
- Chair of the NORA annual conference 2025, Halden, Norway, 2025
- Workshop co-organizer, The Distributed Viking: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and their applications to intelligence at ALIFE 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark, 2024
- Workshop co-organizer, NeuroAI workshop at NORA 2024 annual conference in Kristiansand, Norway, 2024
- Publicity Chair, ICAPAI 2024 conference, Norway, 2024
- Workshop co-organizer, The Distributed Ghost: Cellular Automata, Distributed Dynamical Systems, and their applications to intelligence at ALIFE 2023 in Sapporo, Japan, 2023
- General Chair, ICAPAI 2023 conference, Norway, 2023
- Co-Chair, IEEE ALIFE 2022 conference at IEEE SSCI 2022 in Singapore, 2022
- Co-Chair, 4th Renewable Futures conference in Oslo, Norway, 2021
- Special session co-organizer, Bio-inspired Approaches for Modular Robotics at ALIFE 2021 in Prague, Czech Republic, 2021
- Co-Chair, IEEE ALIFE 2020 conference at IEEE SSCI 2020 in Canberra, Australia, 2020
- Special session co-organizer, Evolutionary Substrates for Artificial Intelligence and Unconventional Computing at IEEE ICES 2020 (part of IEEE SSCI 2020) in Canberra, Australia, 2020
- Co-Chair, IEEE ALIFE 2019 conference at IEEE SSCI 2019 in Xiamen, China, 2019
- Associate Editor, IEEE ICDL-EPIROB 2019 conference in Oslo, 2019
- Co-organizer, Workshop on Novel Substrates and Models for the Emergence of Developmental, Learning and Cognitive Capabilities at IEEE ICDL-EPIROB in Oslo, 2019
- Technical Chair, Autonomy Day 2018 - 2nd workshop on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems at OsloMet, Oslo, 2018
- General Chair, 1st workshop on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems at HiOA, Oslo, 2017
- Co-organizer, special session on Evolutionary physical systems and matter (EPSyM) at IEEE WCCI 2016, Vancouver, Canada
Program Committee/Other Committees
- ALIFE conference, program committee (2016, 2018, 2019, 2020), senior program committee (2021, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- ISAL awards committee (2019, 2025)
- IEEE ALIFE-CIS, program committee (2019, 2020, 2022, 2025 conference chair)
- IEEE SSCI, program committee (2016, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025 organising committee)
- NORA annual conference, program committee (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 conference chair)
- NORA annual awards, coordinator (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- Nordic Machine Intelligence journal, senior editor (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- IEEE ICAPAI, program committee (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
- ASCAT, program committee (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025)
- Springer CODY (2020 Special Session co-guest-editor), Vol. 14 Issue 5 (October 2020)
- NAIS Symposium, program committee (2019)
- ECAL, program committee (2017)
- IEEE WCCI CEC, program committee (2016)
PhD jury
- Opponent for Hugo Cisneros, Inria Paris (2023)
- Opponent for Riversdale Waldegrave, University of York (2025)