Our Team
Co-Directors
Dewi Erwan
Co-Director
Dewi graduated from Durham University having studied risk and engineering, and now works full time supporting various teams and cause-specific groups within Cambridge. He's particularly passionate about global cooperation, climate change, and alternative proteins. In his spare time, he enjoys running, climbing, jazz music, and vanlife.
Eve McCormick
Co-Director
Eve works full-time at EA Cambridge, organising a range of fellowships, events, and mentoring. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge, and is interested in discussing anything EA-related, especially community building, as well as being interested in dogs and Doctor Who.
Core Committee
Asia Wiaterek
Diversity Team Coordinator and Christian Rep
Human, Social, and Political Sciences 1st Year
Asia is interested in governmental policies, reducing poverty and improving institutions in order to face pressing global issues such as climate change. In her spare time, she enjoys learning foreign languages and participating in a range of sports.
Bethan Mapes
Speakers Team Coordinator and Women and Non-Binary Rep
History 1st Year
Bethan is interested in global poverty and policy, and hopes to work in international development in the future.
Francis P.
Community Engagement Team Coordinator
Economics Masters
Francis has a background in computer science, worked in hardware verification and design and now is now studying economics. He enjoys talking about negative utilitarianism, welfare economics, beans, blogs, and board games.
Philipp Spillmann
In-Depth Fellowship Deputy Coordinator
Philosophy of Science PhD
Philipp is a PhD student working on the issue of unknown unknowns in scientific research with a focus on astrobiology and extinction sciences. He's interested in black swans, freakish aliens, weird evidence, terraforming, human de-extinction, and potential ways to communicate with the deep future. His main academic background is in philosophy & public policy (LSE), and in science & technology studies (UCL). Before that he worked for 8 years in journalism, publishing, and education.
Rohit Prabhu
Finance Manager
Physics 3rd Year
Rohit is interested in improving science and scientific institutions, and exploring how the EA community can contribute to this goal. In his spare time, he enjoys playing badminton and ultimate frisbee, discovering new walks and spending time with his dog.
Sophie Bergmann
EA Fellowship Deputy Coordinator
2nd year PhD in Developmental Biology/Stem Cells
Sophie has a background in natural sciences and is interested in animal welfare, cell-based meat & alternative proteins, and biosecurity. She joined EA Cambridge after participating in the intro and in-depth fellowship, and now wants to encourage and support others to work on global priorities by organising the introductory fellowship.
Tristan Cook
In-Depth Fellowship Coordinator
Maths Masters
Tristan is most interested in reducing suffering in the far future and EA community building. He likes going on long walks, listening to podcasts and pretending to be rational.
Will Aldred
EA Fellowship Coordinator
Research Assistant in Entrepreneurship
Will has spent the last year as a research assistant at Cambridge’s Entrepreneurship Centre. Before that, he was a student-athlete at California, Berkeley, where he earned degrees in astrophysics and economics. He’s currently most interested in global priorities research, emerging technologies, and their intersection with China. In his free time, he’s a total fantasy fiction nerd.
Extended Committee
Amrit Sidhu-Brar
Retreat Organiser
Operations Analyst at the Centre on Long-term Risk
Amrit previously studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Cambridge. He enjoys linguistics, reading sci-fi and fantasy, cats, railways, maps, archiving things, going for walks, and chaotic cooking. He blogs about travelling to different parts of the UK here.
Arthur Conmy
Consultant and CERI Team
Maths 2nd Year
Arthur is a maths student with a significant side-interest in Computer Science, including competitive programming (mostly in the past) and machine learning. He's interested in AI alignment, and in his spare time, he likes to run, cycle, and eat vegan food.
Callum McDougall
Fellowship Facilitator and CERI Team
Maths 3rd Year
Callum is most passionate about reducing X-risks, especially risks from emerging technologies.
Caroline Baumöhl
Speakers Team
Law 2nd Year (Cambridge) & Business Admisitration 3rd Year (Munich)
Caroline is excited about EA‘s contributions to combat existential risk, especially in relation to emerging technologies. She's also interested in working to reduce extreme poverty and improving global cooperation. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis and piano, seeing friends and going on walks.
Euan McLean
Community Engagement Team
Machine Learning Engineer
Euan's background is in physics, having recently completed a PhD in theoretical partical physics, but he now works as a machine learning engineer in Cambridge. He's interested in AI safety, s-risks, as well as running, climbing, philosophy and music. He writes aboute AI safety here, and he used to write about physics here.
Faridat Abdulsalami
Diversity Team and Muslim Rep
Biological Natural Sciences 3rd Year
Faridat is currently studying neuroscience, (human) evolution, chemistry and mathematics, and is part of a range of groups within Cambridge that seek to help others.
She's currently trying to delve into the world of bio-adjacent areas with a focus on playing to her interest in logic and mathematics e.g via systems biology and biological engineering. In her spare, she enjoyes running, boxing, athletics, gymnastics, drawing and reading!
Florian Langer
Consultant
Machine Learning PhD
Florian studied Theoretical Physics at Imperial College London and is now in his first year of a PHD in Computer Vision in Cambridge. He is interested in building Intelligent Systems that benefit a large number of people. In his spare time he enjoys exercising, Salsa dancing and drinking Apfelschorle (half apple juice, half sparkling water and a squeeze of lemon, probably the best drink on this planet).
Frances Pye
Speakers Team
Technology Policy MPhil
Frances is a current MPhil Technology Policy student at Cambridge. She completed her undergraduate in Chemistry from Imperial where she became interested in the societal impact of science and technology. She is most interested in AI governance research, with a focus on European mechanisms and institutions. She loves meeting new people and playing piano in her spare time.
Heather Burrows
Speakers Team
English Literature 1st Year
Heather is a first-year English Literature student at Peterhouse. She's most excited in the methods by which the ideas explored by EA can and should be put across to others in an effective way, as well as the journalistic implications of EA, and how we can move towards creating a productive environment of discussion within the media around the world's most pressing issues. She's also very interested in Animal Welfare. She enjoys cooking, reading and movies.
Helena Gellersen
In-Depth Fellowship Facilitator
Psychology PhD
Helena is a final-year Psychology PhD student, and has also worked on projects with the student-run health think tank Polygeia. From September 2021, she will join the Data Team for science policy at the Royal Society. Helena is interested in global priorities research, institutional decision making, science policy, s-risk and x-risk (especially from AI and authoritarian backsliding).
Herbie Bradley
Effective Climate Change Mitigation Coordinator
AI for Environmental Risk PhD
Herbie is a 1st year PhD student in AI for Environmental Risk, working on emulations of climate models. Previously he studied maths and computer science, and just graduated from a masters in computer science at Warwick. He enjoys discussing climate change mitigation and the future of AI. In his spare time he enjoys playing the piano, podcasts, and reading sci-fi.
Jamie Bernardi
Safe AI Cambridge Organiser
Machine Learning Engineer
Jamie is a machine learning engineer, and a physics graduate of the University of Cambridge. Jamie is aiming to improve the lives of others by reducing existential risk from Artificial Intelligence. Jamie's latest projects are kept up to date here.
Hugo Eberhard
EA Fellowship Team and Facilitator
Maths 2nd Year
Hugo is studying maths. He is interested in X-risk reduction and AI safety in particular, as well as in animal welfare. In his spare time he enjoys singing, spending time with friends having interesting discussions, playing board games and cooking/baking.
Katy Taylor
Community Engagement Team and Young Professionals Rep
Software Developer
Katy studied biology at Cambridge, and is now working as a software developer. She runs the Lean Coffee events at EA Cambridge, and is interested in animal welfare and cultured meat.
Maria A Gutierrez
Consultant
Maths 4th Year
Maria is starting a PhD in mathematical epidemiology in Michaelmas 2021 and is a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Maria hopes that her work as an epidemiologist will help to reduce biological risks. She has also organised workshops on high-impact careers for maths students. Outside of EA, she is keen on promoting women in STEM and enjoys reading and dancing, as well as giving maths talks.
Muskaan Garg
EA Fellowship Team and Facilitator
Mechatronics Engineering 2nd year
Muskaan is currently an engineering student majoring in mechatronics/robotics with a minor in computer science. She's working on setting up an EA India platform and leads a One For the World chapter. She's passionate about global poverty, AI risks and the use AI as a tool against climate change. She loves yoga, reading and meeting new people.
Nandini Jadeja
EA Fellowship Facilitator
History 1st Year
Nandini recently got involved with EA, and is excited about the ability for anyone and everyone to get involved, and the opportunities to be constantly learning. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing and going for long walks.
Nandini Shiralkar
Cambridge Existential Risk Initiative President
Engineering 1st Year
Oliver Guest
EA Fellowship Team and Facilitator
Modern Languages 4th Year
Oliver studies French and German at Cambridge. He's particularly interested in policy around emerging technologies and enjoys visiting new cities, playing in orchestras, and cycling.
Phil Palmer
Biosecurity Commnunity Coordinator
Biology PhD
Phil is a first year PhD student researching computational methods to accelerate vaccine development, and recently worked in the biotech industry. He's interested in biorisks and has been involved with EA for about 3 years.
Rudolf Laine
Community Engagement Team and CERI Team
CompSci 3rd Year
Rudolf is very interested in the theoretical side of computing, as well as topics pertaining to the future of human civilisation. He writes about these topics on his blog.
Sabine Matysik
Community Engagement Team
Chemistry PhD
Sabine is a a third-year PhD student in computational chemistry, and has been on the EA committee for 2 years now, running many fun socials! She's interested in global health, public policy and decision making, and global resilience against long-term risks.
Sae Koyama
EA Fellowship Facilitator
Maths 2nd Year
Sae has been involved with EA Cambridge for a year, and enjoys maths, having fun and (hopefully) productive discussions, and trying to figure out career paths.
Seth Collin
EA Fellowship Facilitator
Medicine 1st Year
Seth is a first year medical student at Cambridge, and was introduced to the EA Cambridge community this year through the EA fellowship. He is interested in infectious diseases , climate change and music.