Alberto Luengo Martin leads AI research at Rkive AI. He writes fiction, and a scientific treatise on the chemistry and phenomenology of perfume. His work overlaps across domains in ways he didn’t plan for.
Writing
The Shape of Smell
What does a molecule smell like? You mostly can't tell from its shape — and that's not a gap in the chemistry, it's a property of the sense.
The Semantics and History of Color Vocabulary
Homer calls the sea wine-dark and fresh honey green, and the words are not mistakes — they track the state of a material, not its hue. A look at how color vocabularies actually work, from the Greek palette to the murex snails behind Tyrian purple to the Japanese light that is green but called blue.
Books
Peer Review
Scent & Silence
Ventures
FM Lab
Wearable hardware devices and AI for wearables.
Previously: Themtech.
A short note from time to time, when something is worth saying.