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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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Louis Research Group

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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