The International Society for Artificial Life is pleased to confirm the winners of the 2025 ISAL Awards. The awards were presented to recipients during the 2025 Conference on Artificial Life in Tokyo, Japan.
After a nomination process open to all members of the broader Artificial Life community, sub-committees reviewed the nominations and made recommendations that were then approved by the ISAL board of directors.
The awards and 2025 winners are:
| Award | Year | Recipient |
| ISAL Award for Lifetime Achievement | 2025 | Dr. Mark Bedau |
| ISAL Award for Distinguished Early-Career Investigator | 2025 | Dr. Emily Dolson |
| ISAL Award for Education and Outreach | 2025 | Complexity Explorables (by Dr. Dirk Brockman) |
| ISAL Award for Outstanding Publication of the Decade 2010-2020 | 2025 | Integrated Information Increases with Fitness in the Evolution of Animats, Edlund, J. A., Chaumont, N., Hintze, A., Koch, C., Tononi, G., & Adami, C. (2011) Plos Comp Biol. 7(10): e1002236 https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002236 |
| ISAL Award for Exceptional Service | 2025 | Dr. Josh Bongard |
| ISAL Award for Outstanding Student Publication | 2025 | Ferigo, A., Iacca, G., Medvet, E., & Nadizar, G. (2025). Totipotent neural controllers for modular soft robots: Achieving specialization in body–brain co-evolution through Hebbian learning. Neurocomputing, 614, 128811. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231224015820 |
Congratulations to all the winners!
For a list of past awards, see this page.