Affiliations

Past & Current

Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering
School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine/King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence
King’s College London

Senior Researcher
Machine Learning Group
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.

Lab Leader/Assistant Professor in Algorithmic Complexity and Network Theory
Algorithmic Dynamics Lab, Unit of Computational Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Visiting Scholar
Department of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.

Senior Researcher/ISA Innovate UK BridgeAI Advisor
The Alan Turing Institute
The UK National Institute for Data Science and AI
British Library, London, U.K.

Senior Researcher & Faculty Member
Structural Biology Group
Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K.

Research Associate in Behavioural Complexity
Behavioural and Evolutionary Theory Lab
Department of Computer Science/Kroto Research Institute
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.

Senior Research Associate
Special Projects (office of the CEO, S. Wolfram)
Wolfram Research, Urbana-Champaign, IL. U.S.

Payload Team Member
Animal Behavior in Microgravity
NASA Mars Gravity Biosatellite
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), U.S

Education

PhD. Logic, Philosophy and Epistemology
(highest honours with congratulations by the jury)
University of Paris/Panthéon-Sorbonne/ENS Ulm/CNRS), Paris, France
Examining committee: J. Mosconi, J.P. Delahaye, B. Cooper, A. Adamatzky and C. Imbert

M.Phil./Res. Logic (LoPHISS)
University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne),
Ecole Nationale Supérieure & CNRS
Paris, France
Supervisor: J. Dubucs

PhD. Theoretical Computer Science
(highest honours)
University of Lille, Lille, France
Examining committee: J.P. Delahaye, G. Chaitin, S. Grigorieff, P. Mathieu and H. Zwirn


PGCert in Nanotechnology for Medicine
(1st year Masters)
University of Oxford


BSc. Mathematics
National University of Mexico (UNAM)
Mexico City, Mexico
Supervisor: F. Hernández-Quiroz

Member of the following societies and organisations

• Board trustee, British Society for Research on Ageing (2023-2026)

• London Mathematical Society (elected member in 2015)

• The Oxford Invariants Society (Oxford math students society) (lifetime)

• Oxford University Scientific Society – OUSS (lifetime)

• Cambridge Networks Network – University of Cambridge

• Foundational Questions Institute, FQXi (lifetime)

• Computability in Europe (lifetime)

As a keynote speaker at the Complexity Hub inaugural conference in Austria, Vienna in 2015. With other 7 keynote speakers, including, Steve Lansing, Michael Szell (on picture), Cesar A. Hidalgo, Ricard Sole, Gerhart Schmitt, Cathryn Carson (on picture), Brian Arthur, and Albert Barabasi (in the picture on his knees).

Signing the 150-year old members book of the London Mathematical Society after being elected as a member. The book has been signed by other mathematicians such as Maxwell, Poincaré, de Morgan, Hardy, Pólya and Penrose, to mention the most popular, among many others.

  • ● Expert scientific evaluator/reviewer for:

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    ● Peer reviewed for the following journals: Theoretical Computer Science; Fundamenta Informaticae; Complex Systems;

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    ● Nonlinearity; Information Processing Letters; Discrete Applied Mathematics; International Journal of Unconventional

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    ● Computing; Natural Computing; New Journal of Physics, and PLoS One, Frontiers, Philosophies, Biosystems, Entropy.

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    ● Book and paper reviewer: For the ACM Computing Reviews (more than 25 reviews published, some of them featured selected review and selected reviewer).

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    ● Guest Editor of the following journal special issues:

    ● Invited editorial board member of:

    • Frontiers(a Nature group journal) in Robotics and AI (specialty computational intelligence)

    • Springer Book Series on Emergence, Complexity and Computation in Nature.

    ● Member of the national body of researchers SNI, CONACYT (SNI II)

    ● Member of the Registro CONACYT de Evaluadores Acreditados (RCEA) (Mexican National Science Council)

    ● Committee member, chair, or organiser of:

    • 52 ASCAT 2023 Second Asian Symposium on Cellular Automata Technology, 2023

    • 51 WorldCist23 11st World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies

    • 50 AUTOMATA 2022 The 28th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems

    • 49 COMPLEX NETWORKS 2020 Ninth International Conference on Complex Networks & Their Applications

    • 48 AUTOMATA2020 26th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems

    • 47 ALife2020 ALife 2020

    • 46 SSCI2019 The 2019 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence

    • 45 AUTOMATA 2019 25th International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems

    • 44 ALIFE 2019 The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life

    • 43 SOI-WS-V2 Study Of Information World Scientific Vol 2

    • 42 LOD 2018 4th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Data Science

    • 41 SE4COG2018 The 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering for Cognitive Services

    • 40 ALIFE 2018 The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life

    • 39 AUTOMATA 2018 24th Annual International Workshop on Cellular Automata and Discrete Complex Systems

    • 38 TICTTL2011 Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic

    • 37 PAAMS'12-ss 10th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (special sessions)

    • 36 MOD 2017 3rd International Conference on Machine learning, Optimization & big Data

    • 35 CiE 2017 Computability in Europe 2017

    • 34 ECAL 2017 14th European Conference on Artificial Life

    • 33 ALIFE 2016 The Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems

    • 32 ICNSC 2016 13th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing, and Control

    • 31 SITIS 2015 The 11th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems

    • 30 ASDS2015 Architecting Self-Managing Distributed Systems

    • 29 RaR-HAaM-2015 REPRESENTATION AND REALITY: HUMANS, ANIMALS AND MACHINES

    • 28 CCS'15 Conference on Complex Systems '15

    • 27 CiE 2015 Computability in Europe 2015

    • 26 FCT 2015 20th International Symposium on Fundamentals of Computation Theory

    • 25 AUTOMATA 2015 AUTOMATA 2015

    • 24 IWBBIO2015 3rd International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering

    • 23 ECAL 2015 13th European Conference on Artificial Life

    • 22 ROR/AISB-50 Symposium: Representation of Reality. Humans, Animals and Machines/ AISB-50

    • 21 SITIS 2013 The 9th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems

    • 20 TPNC 2013 2nd International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing

    • 19 MCU 2013 Machines, Computations and Universality 2013

    • 18 ALIFE 14 14th International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems

    • 17 ECAL 2013 12th European Conference on Artificial Life

    • 16 SMLC 2013 Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition: Open Questions

    • 15 CiE 2013 Computability in Europe 2013

    • 14 Turing 2014 The Turing Guide

    • 13 ECCS'13 European Conference on Complex Systems 2013

    • 12 JETAI 2013 Journal for Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence

    • 11 PAAMS'13-SS PAAMS'13 Special Sessions

    • 10 ISCS'13 2013 Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems

    • 9 TIC2 Turing in context II

    • 8 ECCS'12 Satellites European Conference on Complex Systems 2012---Satellite Meetings

    • 7 NC @ AISB/IACAP 2012 AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 - Symposium on Natural Computing

    • 6 Wolfram10 Irreducibility and Computational Equivalence: Wolfram Science 10 Years After the Publication of A New Kind of Science

    • 5 WCSCM2011 Workshop on Complex Systems as Computing Models

    • 4 P&C 10 3rd International Workshop on Physics and Computation

    • 3 TURING RESEARCH 2012 Turing Centenary Research Fellowship and Scholar Competition

    • 2 ISP2012 Images: Content Recognition Classification

    • 1 Turing-100 The Alan Turing Centenary

  • ● Awarded the Charles François Prize by the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) for his work to understanding the complexity of living systems.

    ● Swedish Research Council grant worth 3,690,000 SEK (~.5M USD).

    ● Swedish Wenner-Gren Center Foundation for Scientific Research worth 10,000 Euros.

    ● Selected young researcher to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum to closely interact with Fields, Abel and Turing prize winners during a week at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

    ● John Templeton Foundation grant worth 180,000 USD for project on Habitable Zones of Complexity Measures to investigate the interplay of complexity in causal evolving networks.

    ● Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) grant worth 40,000 USD and mini-grants summing about 10K USD awarded by way of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation for travel support in the context of my “The Nature of Computation and the Physics of Information”, “Computation and Biology”, and “Computation and Time”, (FQXi-MGA-1316, 2011-93849 (4661) and FQXi-MGA-1212), 2012-2014.

    ● Appointed member of the National Researchers Body (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores–SNI) of the National Council of Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACyT) in 2013.

    ● Winner in the Computational Imagery category of the “2011 Kroto Institute Scientific Image Competition”. Image entitled “Visualising the Computational Universe: Runtime Space in a Peano Curve”, 2011.

    ● 3rd Place Prize “Reality: Digital or Analog” Contest 2011, awarded by the Foundational Questions Institute (Essay title: “The World is Either Algorithmic or Mostly Random“) announced at the World Science Festival, NYC, 2011.

    ● Travel support by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science through the University of Leeds, 2012.

    ● Bourse aux jeunes chercheurs Comité National Français d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences, 2011.

    ● Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (bourse de mobilité aires culturelles), 2007, University of Paris.

    ● Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) Travel Grant Award (CiE 06, Swansea UK)

    ● NSF and the New England Complex Institute (NECSI) (ICCS06-Boston, USA)

    ● Université de Lille III, Kurt Gödel: The Writings, Maison de la Recherche 2006, Lille, France.

    ● Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK (visiting fellow, Workshop LAAW04, Wolfson Court, Girton College, UK), 2006.

    ● Masters and PhD fellowship from CONACYT and the French Ministry of Education worth 60K EUR, 2005-2011.

  • From left to right: H. Zenil, Stephen Wolfram, Paul Davies, Ugo Pagallo, Greg Chaitin, Cris Calude, Karl Svozil, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and John Casti. Invited Speakers, NKS Conference, University of Vermont, USA. 2007. (Picture by Sally McCay)

  • With Per Martin-Löf (student of Komogorov) having lunch at the Maison de la Recherche, Paris 2010, France

  • With Greg Chaitin at his office in Yorktown, New York IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, 2006, USA

  • Moderating a roundtable featuring (in order from left to right): Greg Chaitin, Ed Fredkin, George Csicsery, Tony Leggett, Cris Calude, Tom Toffoli and Stephen Wolfram on the subject: What is Computation? How does nature compute? University of Indiana Bloomington, 2008, USA

  • On the National Geographic Explorer ship invited by the FQXi. From Bergen in Norway through the Swedish archipelago to Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011.

  • Lecturing at Mälardalen University in Sweden. CDT403 Research Methods in Natural Sciences and Engineering.

  • Control room of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and M. Nolan, director of the observatory in a visit with friend L. Doyle from SETI. January 2014.

  • Control room of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and M. Nolan, director of the observatory in a visit with friend L. Doyle from SETI. January 2014.

  • Control room of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and M. Nolan, director of the observatory in a visit with friend L. Doyle from SETI. January 2014.

  • On the left hand side of the table leaning back at the front next to Jim Crutchfield. Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, 2019.

  • Wolfram Science School trip to San Gimignano, Italy (Summer, 2009) From left to right school instructors: Hector Zenil, Jamie Williams, Paul-Jean Letourneau, Tommaso Bolognesi, Jean Baetens. Among the participants: Ray Aschheim.

  • Left to right: Kristian Lindgren, Rick Quax, Hector Zenil, Jeff Emenheiser, Sarah Marzen, Alfons Hoekstra, Cornelis Boon, Randy Beer, Ryan James, Peter Sloot, Greg Ver Steeg, Jim Crutchfield, Fernando Rosas. Institute for Advanced Study, University of Amsterdam, 2019.

This video recording was made from the vantage point of the Banana river, 6 miles from the Shuttle platform in a restricted area inside the Kennedy Space Center. The STS-123 was the 25th. flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and delivered a Japanese module and the Canadian Dextre robot.