In 2024, Prof. Dr. Franz Rothlauf received the SIGEVO Outstanding Contribution Award, which recognizes remarkable contributions to Evolutionary Computation (EC) when evaluated over a sustained period of at least 15 years. These contributions can include technical innovations, publications, leadership, teaching, mentoring, and service to the EC community. To celebrate these distinctions, Franz (as well as Anne Auger) kindly answered some questions reflecting on their contributions and views on evolutionary computation as well as their advice to young researchers in the field.
The full interview can be found in the newsletter of SIGEVO:
https://evolution.sigevo.org/issues/HTML/sigevolution-17-4/index.html