[citation needed] He was an associate professor at the Center for Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen before moving to NYU.

[citation needed] Togelius is the editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Games journal.

He is also, with Georgios N. Yannakakis, the co-author of the Artificial Intelligence and Games[1] textbook and the co-organiser of the Artificial Intelligence and Games Summer School series.

[2] Togelius was described by Kenneth O. Stanley as one of "the world's most accomplished experts at the intersection of games and AI".

[3] His research has appeared in media such as New Scientist,[4][5][6] and Le Monde,[7] The Verge,[8] The Economist,[9] and the MIT Technology Review.