Nick Gotts trained in psychology and artificial intelligence. Until 1996, his research mainly concerned qualitative spatial representation and reasoning in humans, other animals, and computers. From July 1998 he focused on designing and experimenting with agent-based models of land use and energy demand at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, and subsequently at the James Hutton Institute into which it was merged, and working in and leading interdisciplinary research teams in these policy-relevant areas; also working on cellular automata, the classification and dynamics of complex systems, and methodology of agent-based modelling. From December 2008 to April 2012 he was coordinator of the European Commission FP7 project GILDED (Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand). From July 2012 to June 2020 he was an independent researcher. At the start of July 2020, he returned to paid employment as a research fellow in agent-based modelling at the University of Leeds School of Geography, working on modelling movements of health-care workers in hospitals, as part of the MRC-funded SAFER project. Since the start of 2022 he has continued this work as a visiting fellow. He has broad interests in science, mathematics, history, politics and literature. Further information at nickgotts.weebly.com.