Writer and biomedical engineer. Founder, ArtScience Labs, a network of organizations in US, France and South Africa, devoted to cultural creation for social benefit; Founder and Director, Le Laboratoire, Paris, where artists and scientists perform collaborative experiments and The Laboratory, Harvard. Author of essays, novels and scientific textbooks including, Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation (2008). Member, National Academies of Engineering, US and France. Recipient of award, Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2008).