Hector Zenil was born in Mexico City and was given the French citizenship for academic merit. Gregory Chaitin once described him as a "new kind of practical theoretician/experimentalist". His main research interest is in connecting nature and computation through numerical simulation and experimentation in-silico using digital systems and computer programs. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lille 1 and a PhD in Philosophy of Mathematics from the University of Paris 1/ENS Ulm (IHPST), a Master's degree in Logic (LoPhiSS) from the University of Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne) and a BSc. in Mathematics from the National University of Mexico (UNAM). He is currently a Research Fellow spearheading translational research introducing tools from information theory, algorithmic complexity science and network theory into genetics and molecular biology at the Unit of Computational Medicine, Centre for Molecular Medicine and SciLifeLab, Karolinska Institute (the institution that awards de Nobel prize) in Sweden; and a Principal Investigator at the University Oxford, undertaking research on tradeoffs of complexity measures in evolving causal networks. He is also a Senior Research Associate for Wolfram Research (the creators of Mathematica and WolframAlpha) reporting directly to the CEO Stephen Wolfram, has been an intern at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and an invited visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. He is a member of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee and of the SNI in Mexico (CONACyT). He is the editor of several books for Springer, World Scientific Publishing Company and Imperial College Press two of which were bestsellers (Randomness Through Computation and A Computable Universe--with a foreword by Sir Roger Penrose). He has written more than 50 papers in indexed and peer-reviewed journals and volumes including Nature Methods, Behavior Research Methods, Physica A, and Visual Cognition, among others. He is staff member of the Wolfram Science Summer School held in Boston every year.