Dr Peter John Bentley (born 16 May 1972) is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London.
He was a contributing editor for WIRED UK and was the monthly host of the Royal Institution's café scientifique.
Since 1997 has been head of the Digital Biology Interest Group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London.
He participates in science festivals and public events, for example he organised and chaired the debate on Complexity and Evolution held as part of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference at the Natural History Museum in July 2007 with Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones, Lewis Wolpert.
He cofounded the online marketplace Kazoova Ltd which specialises in quirky and unusual activities and was Chief Technology Officer of AI company Braintree Ltd from 2016 to 2019.