University of Cambridge
UCL
Max JaderbergPresident · Isomorphic LabsResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder · Executive
Demis Hassabis
Google DeepMindCo-founder and Chair
AlphabetChief Scientist
Isomorphic LabsFounder and CEO
🇬🇧 BritishBorn 1976
Hassabis helped turn AI into a tool for scientific discovery. He co-founded DeepMind and led the teams behind AlphaGo and AlphaFold[1], sharing the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work predicting the three-dimensional shapes of proteins.[2]
Career & education
Current rolesGoogle DeepMindAug 2026-presentCo-founder and ChairAlphabetAug 2026-presentChief ScientistIsomorphic Labs2021-presentFounder and CEO
Google DeepMindAug 2026-presentAlphabetAug 2026-presentIsomorphic Labs2021-presentPreviouslyGoogle DeepMind2010-Aug 2026Co-founder and CEO
Elixir Studios1998-2005Founder and CEO
Google DeepMind2010-Aug 2026Elixir Studios1998-2005Lead AI Programmer
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations325,482As of Nov 1, '26
citations+9,753Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Updates 2
MoveKoray Kavukcuoglu steps up to lead Google DeepMind
Kavukcuoglu moved from CTO to Senior Vice President, taking operational leadership of Google DeepMind.
August 5, 2026MoveDemis Hassabis becomes Google DeepMind chair as Koray Kavukcuoglu steps up to leadHassabis is moving into long-term strategy and science roles, while Kavukcuoglu takes operational leadership of Google DeepMind as SVP.
August 5, 2026Selected contributions
Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
With John Jumper, Richard Evans, Alexander Pritzel, Tim Green, Michael Figurnov, Olaf Ronneberger, Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and others ·Presented AlphaFold 2, predicting proteins' three-dimensional shapes from their sequences.
Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
With Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Silver, Andrei A. Rusu, Joel Veness, Marc G. Bellemare, Alex Graves and others ·Presented DQN, learning to play 49 Atari games from screen images and game scores.
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
With David Silver, Aja Huang, Chris J. Maddison, Arthur Guez, Laurent Sifre, George van den Driessche, Julian Schrittwieser and others ·AlphaGo combined neural networks and search to beat a professional Go player.
References
- Mastering the game of Go — AlphaGo original paperresearch.google
He co-founded DeepMind and led the teams behind AlphaGo and AlphaFold
- Google DeepMind — AlphaFold and the 2024 Nobel Prizedeepmind.google
sharing the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work predicting the three-dimensional shapes of proteins.
- Reuters — Google shakes up AI leadership as DeepMind chief shifts roleinvesting.com
August 5, 2026 transition from CEO to Chair and Alphabet Chief Scientist; continued Isomorphic CEO role and more time for its work.
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