Dr. Hector Zenil holds dual PhDs—one in Logic and Epistemology from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and in Theoretical Computer Science from the University of Lille. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the Behavioural and Evolutionary Lab at the University of Sheffield, and at the Unit of Computational Medicine at the Karolinska Institute where he was promoted to Assistant Professor and Lab Leader of the Algorithmic Dynamics Lab. He later was a faculty member and Senior Researcher at the Structural Biology Group, Department of Computer Science, Oxford University, at The Alan Turing Institute in London and at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge. He has received numerous prestigious accolades, including a John Templeton Foundation research grant awarded in 2014, the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) Young Researcher Grant in 2017, and the Charles François Prize in 2024 from the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences at the World’s Conference in Complex Systems. He has an H-index of 40 (G. Scholar).

He is internationally recognised for pioneering work in algorithmic complexity for applications to causality, systems biology and computational medicine. A frequent invited and keynote speaker at top conferences, most recently: Artificial Life 2025 (Japan), the opening keynote of the King’s Festival on AI 2025 (UK), and keynote on multiple occasions at the World Congress of Complex Systems. He has published 120+ papers in high-impact journals across AI and complexity in biomedical application and has been covered by world media in Wired, LeMonde, Bloomberg, Forbes, Scientific American, New Scientist, The NY Times, Quanta, among others.