Carlos M. Fernandes (Luanda, 1973) is a scientific researcher and professor at Lusófona University. With a degree in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, he completed a master's degree in 2002 and a doctorate in 2009, at the same institution, with theses on evolutionary computing. Since then he has been pursuing lines of research on collective intelligence and complex systems, as well as on the relationship between art and science, the nature of creativity and the role of photography in dialogues between the natural sciences and the humanities (Fernandes studied photography at Ar.Co. (1994-96), and has been teaching photography and the history of photography at the Núcleo de Arte Fotográfica at Instituto Superior Técnico since 1997). He was an assistant professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, where he taught Signal and Systems Theory, Instrumentation and Measurements, and Optics. He was a researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics of the Instituto Superior Técnico. He has more than one hundred scientific papers in conferences, journals and book chapters, in areas ranging from evolutionary computing to biomedical engineering, generative art, video games, task scheduling and load balancing. He has won the prize for best conference paper on two occasions, as first author, and in 2012 he was the winner of the Evolutionary Art, Design and Creativity Competition, part of the GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Congress). He has published the books Hidden Landscapes: Notes on Art, Science and Distributed Creativity, about art and artificial intelligence, The Magic Pencil: A History of the Construction of Photography, about the History of Photography, and Vai Ficar Tudo Mal, which brings together his chronicles published in the newspaper O Observador between 2019 and 2021.
