Rate My Professor Ard Louis

Louis completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, and received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cornell University, U.S.A. Prior to Oxford, he taught Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Cambridge and was Director of Studies in Natural Sciences at Hughes Hall. From 2002 to 2010, he held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. In 2025, Professor Louis was awarded the Institute of Physics Sam Edwards Medal and Prize. His scholarly impact is evidenced by over 14,500 citations on Google Scholar. Key publications include "Symmetry and simplicity spontaneously emerge from the algorithmic nature of evolution" (PNAS, 2021; with Iain G. Johnston, Kamaludin Dingle, Sam F. Greenbury, Chico Q. Camargo, Jonathan P. K. Doye, and Sebastian E. Ahnert), "Contingency, convergence and hyper-astronomical numbers in biological evolution" (Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2016), "Predicting the topography of fitness landscapes from the structure of genotype–phenotype maps" (Genetics, 2026; with Malvika Srivastava and Nora S. Martin), "A simple mean field model of feature learning" (2025; with Niclas Göring, Chris Mingard, and Yoonsoo Nam), and "Sufficient Conditions for Stability of Minimum-Norm Interpolating Deep ReLU Networks" (2026; with Ouns El Harzli, Yoonsoo Nam, Ilja Kuzborskij, and Bernardo Cuenca Grau).