A chess and programming prodigy, Demis is a computer scientist, neuroscientist and videogame designer. He founded the pioneering AI research company DeepMind in 2010, now part of Alphabet, which continues to produce landmark breakthroughs like AlphaFold in 2020 - a solution to the 50-year grand challenge of protein folding.
He designed and programmed the award-winning game Theme Park at the age of 17 and went on to graduate from Cambridge University and complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London.
Demis was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein structure prediction. His research has been featured by the journal Science in their Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year four different times. Demis is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering.
In 2017, Demis was recognised as one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People”, and in 2018, he received a CBE for services to science and technology. In 2024, he was awarded a knighthood for services to Artificial Intelligence.
