Nicolas Bredeche is Professeur des Universités (full professor, 1st class) in computer science at Sorbonne Université in Paris, France. He is a member of the Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique (Campus Pierre et Marie Curie). His research activity revolves around adaptive collective systems with two motivations: (1) to understand natural systems, using individual-based modeling and simulation methods (e.g.: collective decision-making, the evolution of cooperation) and (2) to design adaptive collective/swarm robotic systems using evolutionary and social learning algorithms (e.g.: behavior optimization for collective robotics, online distributed evolutionary learning for swarm robotics). He is particularly interested in how a collective of individuals, whether artificial or natural, can learn how to self-organize and survive together in open environments.