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Theoretical physicists working at a blackboard collaboration pod in the Beecroft building.
Credit: Jack Hobhouse

Ard Louis

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Research theme

  • Biological physics

Sub department

  • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

Research groups

  • Condensed Matter Theory
ard.louis@physics.ox.ac.uk
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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.

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Research interests

Statistical Physics
Biological Physics
DNA
Evolution
Deep Learning
Algorithmic Information Theory

Selected publications

Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution

(2021)
Iain G Johnston, Kamaludin Dingle, Sam F Greenbury, Chico Q Camargo, Jonathan PK Doye, Sebastian E Ahnert, Ard A Louis

Contingency, convergence and hyper-astronomical numbers in biological evolution.

Studies in history and philosophy of biological and biomedical sciences 58 (2016) 107-116
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