Simple apps for complex systems.

Trained as a theoretical physicist (PhD, Université Paris-Sud; alumnus of École Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech), he has published 150 scientific articles — in Science, Nature, and PNAS, as well as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review — collecting more than 50,000 citations along the way. His book Swarm Intelligence (Oxford University Press) has been a scientific bestseller for 25 years and inspired Michael Crichton's novel Prey; he also co-authored Self-Organization in Biological Systems (Princeton University Press), a leading graduate biology textbook, and was the founding editor-in-chief of two scientific journals.

As Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of Icosystem for 17 years, he grew a single idea into a firm that executed nearly 300 analytics and machine learning projects for Fortune Global 1000 companies — while spinning off four companies along the way. He went on to serve as Chief Scientific Officer of Telepathy Labs, a customer service and analytics AI company, and as founding CTO of BiomEdit, a bacterial discovery and engineering company.

As the founding Dean of Computational Sciences at Minerva University — the #1 most innovative university in the world — he designed the curriculum, carried it through accreditation, and taught its first cohorts of students.

Today, Eric is Chief Scientific Officer at Discontinuity Capital, an AI-focused hedge fund, and Professor of Practice at Arizona State University (ASU–Santa Fe Institute Center for Biosocial Complexity). This site is his workshop: small, focused apps that take one hard question at a time and make it explorable.

He also once designed a prototype food replicator for NASA's long-term space missions, based on the science of molecular gastronomy.