Miguel Duarte received an honorable mention, (''Papers of Excellence'') with the work entitled ''Hierarchical Evolution of Robotic Controllers for Complex Tasks'' of the IEEE Conference on Development and Learning / EpiRob 2012, San Diego, California, 7 November 2012.

Miguel Duarte is a MSc student, being supervised by the IT reseachers Prof. Sancho Oliveira and Prof. Anders Christensen.