In July 2024, Franz Rothlauf has been awarded with the ACM SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award. The awards goes to Professor Rothlauf in recognition of his fundamental and influential research on solution representations in evolutionary computation and of his extraordinary servie to ACM SIGEVO. The awards carries a monetary value of $1,000 and a plaque contributed by SIGEVO.
Further details on this prestigious award can be found at https://sig.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=ACM%20SIGEVO%20Outstanding%20Contribution%20Award