Fink studied physics at Caltech, winning the Fisher Prize for top physicist, and did a PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge with Robin Ball.
He was a Junior Fellow at Caius College, Cambridge, and a postdoc at Ecole Normale Superieure with Bernard Derrida.
He is currently a Charge de Recherche in physics in the French CNRS. Fink has written popular science books with sales of 1/3 million.
Outside of physics, Fink is interested in design, simplicity, adaptability, skiing and shooting.