Ard A. Louis

Biography

Ard A. Louis is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group that investigates scientific problems on the border between disciplines such as chemistry, physics, and biology, and is also director of graduate studies in theoretical physics.

From 2002 to 2010 Louis was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford. He is also an associate of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion. In 2013 he was elected a member of the International Society for Science and Religion.  With David Malone he made the 4-part documentary Why Are We Here for Tern TV.  Louis also appears in the episode Proof of God in the series The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, giving him an Erdős–Bacon number of 6.

Academic biography

Research topics

I am a theoretical physicist with a broad interdisciplinary set of interests, including self-assembling DNA, theories of evolution, the dynamics of soft matter, machine learning and applications of algorithmic information theory.  I happily collaborate with biologists, chemists, computer scientists, mathematicians, philosophers and theologians.