Carlos Gershenson was born September 29, 1978 in Mexico City studied a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering at the Arturo Rosenblueth Foundation in Mexico City in 2001 and a Master of Science in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems at the University of Sussex.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Sciences at the Centrum Leo Apostel of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium in 2007, on “Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems”, under the supervision of Francis Heylighen.
His academic interests include self-organizing systems, complexity, and artificial life. He did a postdoc with Yaneer Bar-Yam at the New England Complex Systems Institute. After joining as a research professor the Computer Science Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, he also became an associated researched of the Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad at the same university.
He was the head of the Computer Science Department (2012-2015).
He has been a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Visiting Research Professor at Northeastern University, and Visiting Professor at ITMO University. He has been editor-in-chief of Complexity Digest since 2009.
