About

I’m a researcher at Coefficient Giving, on the Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness team. I’ve historically focused on biosecurity, but this year I’ve also spent time on other questions about how advances in AI and technological progress more broadly could change the world — from faster economic growth to new catastrophic risks. I write about this on my team’s blog, Defenses in Depth.

Before Coefficient Giving, I was a research scholar at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, where I worked on existential and catastrophic risks. Before that, I did my PhD at Princeton in physics, studying conformal field theories.

I grew up in Townsville, Australia, and did my undergraduate at the Australian National University. Outside of work, I like to read non-fiction and cook historical recipes.