Career

Prior to moving to England, Adamatzky was a research fellow in the Biophysics department at Saint St. Petersburg State University in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia, and also worked for Galafox Limited. there. Adamatzky is the author or co-author of five books:

Identification of Cellular Automata (Taylor & Francis, 1994)

Computing in Nonlinear Media and Automata Collectives (Institute of Physics, 2001)

Dynamics of Crowd-Minds: Patterns of Irrationality in Emotions, Beliefs and Actions (World Scientific, 2005)

Reaction-Diffusion Computers (with Ben De Lacy Costello and Tetsuya Asai, Elsevier, 2005)

Physarum Machines: Computers from Slime Mould (World Scientific, 2010)

In addition he is the editor or co-editor of several edited volumes. Adamatzky is known for his research in unconventional computing.

In particular, he has worked on chemical computers using reaction-diffusion processes.

He has used slime moulds to plan potential routes for roadway systems and as components of nanorobotic systems, and discovered that they seek out sedatives in preference to nutrients. He has also shown that the billiard balls in billiard-ball computers may be replaced by soldier crabs.