Keith Y. Patarroyo
Research Engineer on Chemical Evolution, Digital Chemistry and Unconventional Computation
University of Glasgow
Biography
I obtained my M.Sc. in Computer Science at the Computational Design Group from the Université de Montréal. I currently work as a research engineer at the Complex Chemistry labs in the Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC) from the University of Glasgow. I’m also a Foresight Fellow for 2026.
A short description of my training, I was drawn to continuous and discrete aspects of physics (Fluid Dynamics and Kinetic Theory) by J. Muñoz, taught FEM by J. Galvis, DG-FEM by X. Zhang(张翔雄), computational design and making machines by B. Thomaszewski and Complex Systems Theory by S. Wolfram, inter alia.
- Hierarchical Assembly
- Digital Chemistry
- Computational Design
- Chemical Evolution
- Artificial Life
- Formal Verification
- Distributed Systems
MSc in Computer Science, 2021
Université de Montréal
BSc in Physics(Honors), 2018
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Recent News
2025
[19/12/25] We uploaded the preprint Assembly Addition Chains to the Arxiv.
[21/11/25] Our paper Rapid Exploration of the Assembly Chemical Space of Molecular Graphs was accepted to Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling!
[12/11/25] I was awarded the Foresight Fellowsip for 2026.
[13/02/25] We uploaded the preprint Quantifying the Complexity of Materials with Assembly Theory to the Arxiv.
Projects
Gálapagos Project
A project to understand the evolution of technology and find the building blocks of empirical meta-engineering
