Head of School, Associate Professor Seth Lazar recently announced new members that are joining the school in various projects.

He wrote the following welcome message:

“As many of you know, we've got a flood of new colleagues arriving very soon, as research fellows associated with various projects. If you follow us on twitter, you'll have seen them announced there, but in case you haven't and would like to welcome our new colleagues before they join, here's a quick cheat-sheet:

HMI:

SoP will be joined by Mario Gunther, Pamela Robinson, and Sarita Rosenstock. Mario's PhD work was in the Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy, on learning, conditionals, and causation. He is now a postdoc around the corner at Regensburg, and has particular interests in the choice-theoretic representation of moral theories. Pamela worked on Normative Uncertainty at Rutgers, and is now finishing up a postdoc at UMass Lowell on ethics and autonomous vehicles, with an interdisciplinary team. And Sarita is finishing her PhD in philosophy of physics (and other areas related to applied mathematics) at UC Irvine. She also works in evolutionary game theory, and in the philosophy of data science.

Another philosopher will be joining the project, based in the Coral Bell School. Claire Benn is currently finishing up a postdoc at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. Claire has worked on, among other things, supererogation, porn, and the ethics of technology, following a PhD at Cambridge with Rae Langton.

Research fellows at RSCS include Alban Grastien, an established AI researcher, and Atoosa Kasirzadeh who has a PhD in Operations Research, and is finishing a philosophy PhD tackling explanation from the philosophy of science side, looking at how mathematics contributes to the scientific explanation and understanding of empirical phenomena.

ARC:

Liz Jackson will be joining the Ethics and Risk project from Notre Dame, her work is at the intersection between formal and traditional epistemology, in which she has defended dualism about belief and credence, but she's also very interested in ethics, philosophy of mind, decision theory, and other such things.

Ignacio Ojea Quintana will be joining Colin's ARC project on trust online, he works in epistemology, logic, game theory, decision theory, philosophy of science, and related areas. He also works on data science and machine learning.

Mark Budolfson you have likely already seen around, he's already joined Nic's project on feasibility in politics as a research fellow, with a particular focus on feasibility issues in connection with climate change.

ANU Futures:

Michael Nielsen will be joining us in connection with Katie's ANU Futures award, as well as other departmental funds. He doesn't have a website so there's no convenient summary for me to crib from, but he works on a range of Columbia-y topics in formal epistemology, logic, and even a bit of machine learning too.

Julia Haas has now been around for ages and you all know her well, but she's also an ANU futures postdoc, connected with Colin's grant.

I think that gives you the complete list of postdocs/research fellows who are either just about to arrive, or have recently (ish) joined us. 

Join me in welcoming (or re-welcoming) this truly stellar cohort of philosophers to Canberra.”