Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science and Director of the Bayes Centre, the University’s innovation centre for data science and artificial intelligence. As Deputy Director of Research, he co-ordinates artificial intelligence strategies and also acts as a liaison between the University of Edinburgh and the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. His research is conducted within the Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in Informatics Institute (AIAI), of which he was director. His personal adventure with artificial intelligence began in 1999, while working on his bachelor’s thesis at Saabrücken University. After working for a year as a software engineer at a Frankfurt-based AI startup, he began his PhD studies at the Technical University of Munich, focusing on methods that enable agents to learn optimal interaction strategies in the use of structured communication languages. After completing his PhD in 2004, he joined the University of Edinburgh as a lecturer, where he was appointed senior lecturer (2013), assistant professor (2017) and then professor (2019). His research focuses on multi-agent systems, with a particular focus on the development of ethical and responsible artificial intelligence algorithms.