Pierre-Étienne Meunier is a computer science researcher, interested in models of computation and asynchronous computing, in relation with other fields, such as chemistry, economics and energy.

At the moment, he is working on Coturnix , a tool to efficiently share electricity from decentralised means of production (solar panels, micro hydroelectric power plants…) between consumers.

Pierre-Étienne wrote a very large part of a version control system called Pijul , which uses maths to bring version control to the masses, with applications in finance, law, participatory democracy…