Research Staff
Nick Bostrom
Director
Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University and founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute and of the Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology within the Oxford Martin School. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), and Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009), and a forthcoming book on Superintelligence. He previously taught at Yale, and he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy. Bostrom has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy.
Anders Sandberg
James Martin Research Fellow
Anders Sandberg’s research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on societal and ethical issues surrounding human enhancement and new technology, as well as estimating the capabilities and underlying science of future technologies. Topics of particular interest include enhancement of cognition, cognitive biases, technology-enabled collective intelligence, neuroethics and public policy. He has worked on this within the EU project ENHANCE, where he also was responsible for public outreach and online presence.
Stuart Armstrong
Research Associate
Stuart Armstrong's research at the Future of Humanity Institute centres on formal decision theory, the risks and possibilities of Artificial Intelligence, the long term potential for intelligent life, and anthropic probability. He has a background in mathematics and computational biochemistry.
Associates
Milan Cirkovic
Research Associate
Milan M. Cirkovic (b. 1971) is a research professor at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, (Serbia) and an associate professor at the Department of Physics, University of Novi Sad (Serbia). He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook (USA), M.S. in Earth and Space Sciences from the same university, and his B.Sc. in Theoretical Physics from the University of Belgrade.
Robin Hanson
Research Associate
Robin Hanson is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute. After receiving his Ph.D. in social science from the California Institute of Technology in 1997, Robin was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation health policy scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. In 1984, Robin received a masters in physics and a masters in the Philosophy of Science from the University of Chicago, and afterward spent nine years researching Artificial Intelligence, Bayesian statistics, and hypertext publishing, independently, and at Lockheed, NASA.
Guy Kahane
Research Associate
Dr Guy Kahane is the Deputy Director of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Oxford Centre for Neuroethics. He has BPhil and DPhil degrees in Philosophy from Oxford University, and is the recipient of a University Award from the Wellcome Trust (2009-2014). Kahane's research interests include metaethics, value theory, applied ethics, and the psychology and neuroscience of morality. Kahane is also directly involved in neuroimaging studies of moral decision-making.
Toby Ord
Research Associate
Toby Ord's research interests encompass both theoretical and practical ethics. He is currently focusing on a number of questions concerning the nature of consequentialism, its connection to practical decision making, and its relationship to other normative theories. In addition, he is looking at the moral status of the human embryo and at techniques to identify and overcome biases in ethical decision making.
Administrative
Rachel Gaminiratne
James Martin Projects Officer
Rachel joined the Faculty of Philosophy's James Martin Projects in February 2007. Before that, she spent a year working as a course administrator at the Oxford Learning Institute. She has also worked at OUP and Oriel College. Rachel currently works part-time for BEP and FHI (Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays).
Lisa Makros
James Martin Projects Officer
Lisa joined the Faculty of Philosophy in March 2010 as FHI’s full-time Projects Officer. Lisa has a background in English literature, arts management and events planning. Previously, she worked for Oxford Inspires, OUP and for universities in the States