In the last ten years, Dr. Zenil has been associated with so-called Golden Triangle universities in the UK, affiliated with Oxford and Cambridge, as a faculty member and senior researcher, and, more recently, as an Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering at the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine at King’s College London. Before that, he was an Assistant Professor and Lab leader at the Algorithmic Dynamics Lab, Unit of Computational Medicine, Center for Molecular Medicine at the Karolinska Institute (the institution that awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine) and SciLifeLab.

He was a senior researcher and policy advisor at The Alan Turing Institute, the U.K. National Institute for Data Science and AI, financially supported by the Office of Naval Research (U.S. Department of Defense). He remains affiliated with the Turing in an official capacity as one of only nine independent AI scientific advisors to the Turing Institute.

He has pioneered and championed for the last 20 years the transformation of one of the most abstract and theoretical subjects in mathematics related to uncomputability and undecidability to make of algorithmic information an empirical science beyond Shannon Entropy and other limited approaches based upon statistical lossless compression algorithms moving towards mechanical causality.