Alexandros Kourt is both a science writer and a computer engineer. The director of software technology at a multinational holding company, he has over twenty-five years' experience designing and building large-scale computer systems for some of the biggest companies in the world. He has also been a contributor to "Psychology Today" since 2009 and has won multiple awards applying computer theory to evolutionary psychology. Kourt was born in Liverpool, England, and grew up in rural Yorkshire. He now lives in New York.