I work as a Senior Fellow and Research Management Lead at the Oxford China Policy Lab, where my research focuses on the risk pathways associated with US-China competition.

I was awarded my PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, without corrections, in January 2019. During my time working in the UK university sector, I was awarded a highly prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship and received two awards for my teaching excellence. I also worked as a postdoctoral research associate on the AUTONORMS project, based at the Centre for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark, where I became an active contributor to international governance debates on military applications of artificial intelligence.

A key focus of my academic research has been examining the relationship between technology, war, and culture with a particular focus on drones, military applications of AI, and great power competition. My research has been published in leading academic journals, including Big Data & Society, Cooperation and Conflict, Ethics and Information Technology, Geopolitics, and International Politics. I have also co-edited special issues in the journals Contemporary Security Policy and Defence Studies, as well as a special section in Critical Studies on Security.

Alongside my academic publications, I have also published policy-oriented research on military AI and autonomous weapon systems. Co-authored with Professor Ingvild Bode, I have published two influential reports examining how the integration of autonomy into air defence systems and loitering munitions has impacted the exercise of human control. I have also published research commentaries with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Royal United Services Institute, and have been invited to serve as an expert contributor to a United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research project on autonomous weapon systems.

You can use this website to find out more about my research and policy work. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me using the email address listed below.