Dear Members of the Artificial Life community,
The International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) is seeking nominations for our Board of Directors. The board is responsible for managing the society, facilitating the organization of conferences, interfacing with the Artificial Life journal, advocating artificial life research, and developing and promoting the community as a whole.
Board members facilitate these activities by attending monthly virtual meetings, contributing to and attending the annual Artificial Life conferences, and taking up a role on the board. In addition to standard roles (President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer), many other roles for board members exist, including Education Chair, Diversity Chair, Development Chair, Public Relations Chair, Industrial Relations Chair, Societal Impact Chair, Membership Chair, Awards Chair, Journal Liaison, Conference Liaison, and many others. New roles can be created to facilitate initiatives that a board member wishes to pursue.
Elections to the ISAL Board of Directors will take place this year to fill six board positions, for the next four-year board term. These positions are currently occupied by Chris Adami, Jitka Cejkova, Hiroki Sayama, Lisa Soros, Tim Taylor, and Anya Vostinar.
The continuing board members who were previously elected (and are half way through their four year terms) are: Alyssa Adams, Manuel Baltieri, Emily Dolson, Lana Sinapayen, Keisuke Suzuki, and Olaf Witkowski. The newly elected board members will be joining these six current board members, as well as anyone appointed to the board by the elected members.
You may use this form multiple times to propose additional candidates. Please select people who you believe will put in time and energy to help the society succeed. Self-nominations are encouraged!
Any ISAL member may be elected to the ISAL Board of Directors, including outgoing board members. If you are not sure whether the person you are nominating is already an ISAL member or not, please nominate them anyway. If they are not an ISAL member, we will contact them to ask if they are willing to become a member in the event that they are elected.
Note that anyone may nominate, but only members may vote in the next round to select the new board members. To join ISAL, see:
http://alife.org/membershipThe deadline for receipt of nominations is Monday, August 25th, 2025.
The subsequent process is as follows:
1. Nominees will be approached and those who wish to stand for election will be asked to provide a short statement of their intentions and priorities, should they be elected.
2. The list of nominees who wish to stand for election and their statements will be circulated by email to ISAL members (anyone may nominate, but only members may vote).
3. ISAL members will be asked to vote on the candidates via another online form.
4. The six candidates with the most votes will be elected to the ISAL Board of Directors.
To join ISAL, see:
http://alife.org/membershipThank you for your attention and we look forward to receiving your nominations!
