Founder of CBH

Grace is a medical doctor who worked in the NHS for 3 years and holds a Master's in Public Health from the University of Sheffield. After a career pivot that included a year as Operations Manager at Meridian, she co-founded the Cambridge Biosecurity Hub with Sandy Hickson, where she now works full-time. In her spare time, Grace enjoys running half marathons, vintage shopping and spending time with her cat Winston (and her fiancé).

Programme Director

Jonathan is an engineer and economist with a Harvard MBA and 15 years of experience. He has been a consultant at BCG, twice an entrepreneur, and a policy officer at the UN. After realizing that his timelines were too optimistic, he decided to switch careers and is now the Program Director at ERA. He is married and has two kids (who are the main reason to work on AI risks), and he loves reading (from history and psychology to Victorian classics), travelling (he is the son of a pilot and a flight attendant), and football (River Plate and Argentina).

Programme Associate

Genevieve has experience in long-term project planning, workshop facilitation, and teaching. She first joined ERA as the Community Health Lead. Before this, she designed and organised a student development programme for a university, and studied Literature at Durham University. Outside of work, Genevieve enjoys undertaking various creative projects.

Research Manager

Lennart is a Ph.D. candidate and Draper fellow at the MIT Media Lab and the Broad Institute, where he is co-advised by Kevin Esvelt and Pardis Sabeti. Lennart’s professional focus centers on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness, including work on airborne transmission suppression, pandemic early warning systems, and AIxBio risk mitigation. In AIxBio, he has worked on dual-use capability evaluations, including the Weapons of Mass Destruction Proxy (WMDP) and the Virology Capabilities Test (VCT) benchmarks, harm mitigation for biological design tools, and securing AI-assisted lab automation. Lennart has previously held positions at The Council on Strategic Risks, SecureBio, and the U.S. State Department.

Research Manager

Matt is a researcher working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biosecurity, focused on mitigating catastrophic risks from emerging technologies. He earned his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Washington under Nobel laureate David Baker, where he worked on computational protein design and enzyme engineering. Before entering AI policy, Matt spent several years at McKinsey & Company and later as a Senior Product Manager in Microsoft’s Security Division, specializing in cybersecurity and identity for sovereign cloud environments. He is currently an AI Policy Fellow with the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy and a Contributing Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, where he works on AI‑biosecurity policy and threat‑assessment research.

Research Manager

Chris is an independent biosecurity researcher investigating the immunological risks of synthetic mirror life and the incorporation of non-canonical amino acids in protein diffusion models. He earned his PhD in Immunology from the University of Chicago, where he studied B cell responses to influenza and SARS-CoV-2. During his postdoctoral work at the Karolinska Institute, he explored immunogenetic networks at gut mucosal surfaces using single-cell RNA sequencing, bioinformatics, and machine learning. His consulting projects have included universal influenza vaccine design, AI safety and uplift, and benchmarking large language models for virological and immunological laboratory tasks.

Programme Associate

Sam is Head of Courses at Leaf, where they focus on helping people discover their capacity for impact in AI safety and effective altruism. Alongside this, they've designed an introductory AI Safety course, facilitated programs like Non-Trivial, Leaf, and BlueDot, and organised EA Bristol alongside their studies in Maths and Philosophy. When they're not working on talent development, you'll find Sam bouldering, playing board and video games, or around a table for DnD.

Community Health Lead

Poppy’s background is in entrepreneurship, NGOs, community-building, retreat/summit organization and data. She has degrees in both Human Rights and Marketing. She loves helping people find impactful opportunities and creating safe spaces for community to flourish. She spends her free time traveling, volunteering, singing and dancing.

Operations Associate

Ruqaiya’s background is in law, human rights, and international governance. She is a licensed advocate with the Bar Council of India and holds an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford, where she was a High-Impact Career Scholar and a Bonavero Institute Fellow. She has worked across India, Lebanon, the US, and the UK on legal, policy, and operational projects. Her interests lie at the intersection of legal alignment of AI, governance and institutional design, particularly mitigating catastrophic risks like authoritarian misuse of advanced AI. Beyond ERA, she is an EA-aligned founder and mentor, building talent pipelines to support Global South researchers and professionals into high-impact careers.

Operations Contractor

Oscar is a philosopher studying AI Ethics at Cambridge with a background in ethics and moral cognition. They are currently working on risks with automated decision-making and have previously presented on metaethical issues with decision-making using LLMs. When not researching, Oscar can be found playing classical violin and fiddle, hiking, and organizing with various community groups around Cambridge.