Geoff Nitschke is head of the Evolutionary Machine Learning group and associate professor at the department of Computer Science, School of Information Technology, University of Cape Town. He has been working in research on biologically inspired computational intelligence for over 15 years and has over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings and edited volumes. This research has been supported by grants totalling more than 15 million ZAR from national and international funding agencies. Geoff is a strong proponent of evolutionary computation and robotics, consistently presenting at key conferences such as Artificial Life, Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation and the IEEE Symposium series on Computational Intelligence. Geoff is also associate editor of the Adaptive Behaviour and Frontiers in Robotics and AI journals, and participates in numerous international research visits, including sabbatical visits in 2017 to the Computational Intelligence Group, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands, Earth Life Sciences Institute, Tokyo, Japan, the Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group, CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia in 2019-2022, and the School of Computing, at Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom in 2022.