Jacek Marczyk was born in Lodz, Poland, in 1959. In 1968 his family transferred to London, where his parents formed part of the diplomatic corps of the Polish Embassy. He lived in Belgravia, close to Knightsbridge, and attended St. Joseph’s Primary School and St. Thomas Moore’s Secondary School in Chelsea. His preferred form of entertainment after school was frequenting the Science and Natural History museums with his best friend Raymond. His early interest in the sciences impacted immensely his studies and his career.
After spending the period 1974-77 in Poland, the family left for Italy, where Jacek's parents worked at the Polish Consulate in Milan. He concluded MS studies in Aeronautical Engineering at the Milan Polytechnic in 1983.
In 1986 he earned a second MS in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin.
In 1991 he became an Italian citizen. That same year he moved to Madrid.
In 1998 he earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya in Barcelona.
Dr. Marczyk has lived on four continents and worked in aerospace, automotive, oil & gas, computer hardware & software industries, occupying management and executive positions. He has published more than ten books in engineering, numerical simulation, optimization, uncertainty and complexity management, rating, finance, economics and sociology. He is fluent in five languages.
In the mid 90s he developed the theory of eigenvalue orbits, a generalization of the concept of eigenvalue to nonlinear systems. This earned him his doctoral degree.
In 2000-2005 he developed the Quantitative Complexity Theory including the first comprehensive measure of complexity which combines structure and entropy. The metric establishes a link between physics and information theory as well as a candidate for the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics.
He founded Ontonix in 2005 in Italy and launched in 2006 the first commercial system for MEASURING and managing complexity, OntoSpace™.
Over the years, Ontonix has become an independent Think Tank, a center of independent research, beyond just a technology company.
In 2009 he launched technology to monitor complexity and stability of patients in Intensive Care Units, www.ontomed.net. He has published diverse articles in Cardiology Journals. He is also researching the use of QCM in conjunction with Molecular Dynamics in order to determine physio-chemical properties of molecules.
He developed a new theory of risk which has been published in 2009 in a book entitled "A New Theory of Risk and Rating". That same year he launched the first Resilience Rating robot for businesses, an innovative, objective and transparent rating system, which is based on science, not on the so called ‘expert’ opinions. The system is used to measure the resilience of corporations, funds, investment portfolios, countries, regions, markets as well as that of the entire global financial system.
Over the last decade he focused on the development of Quantitative Complexity Management (QCM) solutions for applications in Defence, Manufacturing, Medicine, Risk Rating, and Finance. The technology is, for all practical purposes, Artificial Intuition, and reaches beyond Machine Learning. The essence of Artificial Intuition is that it does not require numerous, often expensive examples for training. In many contexts such examples (anomalies) are very scarce, making ML impractical.
In his latest book - “Governing a Liquid Society - How to Save Democracy From Itself” - he proposes an intriguing and scientific means of ‘skewing’ democracy so as to achieve governability in a context of social chaos, decadence and ‘liquidity’.
A Renaissance man, he is a fervent believer in radical, disruptive research, that has characterized his work throughout his career. His conviction is that R&D is the most effective form of protection of Intellectual Property from emulation, copying, reverse engineering and theft.
Since 2018 he is performing research focusing on the development of next generation Quantitative Complexity Theory, the QCT2. He is currently focusing on code development.
During his career he has worked for companies such as Tecnomare (ENI Group), EADS-CASA Space Division (Airbus), Engineering Systems International, Centric Engineering Systems, Silicon Graphics, EASi, MSC Software or at the R&D Center of BMW AG in Munich.
During the years spent in the Aerospace Industry, he worked on such space programs as Artemis, Rosetta, Cassini, Polar Platform, Hispasat, Ariane 5 and the James Webb Space Telescope.
While at BMW, during the late 1990s, he pioneered industrial applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based on Monte Carlo Simulations software which he had written.
He runs a Complexity blog.
Member of the Cryonics Institute, he lives in Northern Italy, on the shores of beautiful Lake Como, in Madrid and in Mar del Plata, Argentina.