05 · Asterion Labs
Built to outlast
a single idea.
Asterion Labs is a research company. We are not optimising an existing theory of the universe — we are building the instrument that searches for the next one.
To make the discovery of physical law a continuous, auditable process rather than a generational accident.
Falsifiability first
A theory is only retained if the engine can state precisely what observation would destroy it.
Provenance always
Every result ships with the derivation graph that produced it. No unexplained outputs.
Institutions, not users
The platform is granted to organisations capable of independent verification.
Founded
Asterion is founded by four researchers from theoretical cosmology and machine learning, on the premise that theory generation — not data analysis — is the bottleneck in fundamental physics.
First autonomous cosmological engine
Version 3 closes the loop end to end: proposal, symbolic verification, simulation and observational confrontation run without human intervention for 41 continuous days.
Institutional financing
Financing to scale the compute market, expand the partner network to twelve nodes, and open the research portal to approved organisations.
Dr. Elena Vasquez-Rhee
Co-founder · Chief Scientist
Formerly theoretical cosmology, Institute for Formal Cosmology
Dr. Tobi Okonkwo
Co-founder · Chief Executive
Formerly reasoning systems, national laboratory scale AI
Dr. Mira Lindqvist
Head of Simulation
Formerly Bayesian inference for large-scale structure surveys
Dr. Arun Duval
Head of Symbolic Systems
Formerly computer algebra and formal verification
Zürich · Pasadena · remote across eleven time zones