I am a researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. I am the PI of the VR funded project, Expertise in crises (2023-25), which studies the role of experts in high uncertainty, high stakes situations like the Covid-19 pandemic. I am a member of the newly established Mimir Center for Long-Term Futures, within IFFS.

I previously worked on two other projects at IFFS: Climate Ethics and Sustainable Populations in the Time of Climate Change.

My work spans decision theory, social epistemology, and philosophy of science. I tend to work on decision-making under conditions of severe uncertainty, the use of expertise, and scientific modelling, especially as a source of evidence for decisions. 

Here is a video of me describing some challenges with using models to support Covid-19 decision making, for a non-expert audience. I am also working on epistemic and decision-theoretic challenges facing “longtermism“, a recently popular ethical stance.

I did my PhD in philosophy at the London School of Economics, working with Roman Frigg and Richard Bradley. A copy of my CV is available here.

I am from Johannesburg, South Africa, but spent most of the 2010s living in the UK.

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