Charles Ofria is a researcher at the University of Michigan. His research interest span across three different areas, all related to Artificial Life.

Professor Ofria and his research group are extremely interested in the way complex organisms are formed from single organisms. They have tackled this problem in multiple directions, including, but not limited to, exploring the processes that promote complexity, tracking the flow of information into the genomes and setting up different architectures with the genetic material of the individuals. The way they face this research questions, is by using computational (digital) organisms, in which controlling the different characteristics is extremely easier compared to the real world. There is a very interesting paper that shows how the