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Meet the mentors, fellows and alumni of Pivotal's fellowships.
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UpcomingCaspar Kaiser
Associate Professor, University of Warwick
Co-mentor: Lucius Caviola
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingDave Banerjee
Researcher, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
- Q3 2026 AIS
UpcomingEdward James Young
Member of Technical Staff, Geodesic Research
Co-mentor: Puria Radmard
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingEliška Andrš
Policy Researcher, Future of Life Institute
Co-mentor: Risto Uuk
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingEyon Jang
Research Scientist, Preparedness team, Scale AI
Co-mentor: Shi Feng
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingJess Bergs
Member of Technical Staff, UK AISI
Co-mentor: Preeti Ravindra
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingKyle O'Brien
Member of Technical Staff, Geodesic Research
- Co-mentor: Puria Radmard
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingAlumniPreeti Ravindra
AI Control Researcher, Independent
Co-mentor: Jess Bergs
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingPuria Radmard
Co-Founder & Technical Director, Geodesic
Co-mentor: Edward James Young
Co-mentor: Kyle O'Brien
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingRisto Uuk
Head of European Policy and Research, FLI
Co-mentor: Eliška Andrš
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
UpcomingStefan Heimersheim
Research Associate, Adecco / Google DeepMind
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
- Q3 2026 AIS
- Q1 2026 AIS
- Q3 2025 AIS
UpcomingLucius Caviola
Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge
Co-mentor: Caspar Kaiser
- Q1 2027 AIS · Upcoming
- Q1 2026 AIS
OngoingAaron Maiwald
PhD Student at University of Oxford / Graduate Research Fellow at SecureBio
- 2026 Bio
OngoingAman Patel
Senior Program Associate, Biosecurity and Pandemic Preparedness at Coefficient Giving
- 2026 Bio
OngoingAnnabella Wheatley
Biosecurity Field Specialist and Technical Communications at Amodo Design
- 2026 Bio
OngoingAskar Kleefeldt
Co-Founder, Discovery & Strategy at SynX Therapeutics
Co-mentor: Sebastian Oehm
- 2026 Bio
OngoingCarl Mayers
Senior Adviser, Biosecurity Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience
Co-mentor: Cassidy Nelson
Co-mentor: Michael Mahar
- 2026 Bio
OngoingCassidy Nelson
Director of Biosecurity Policy at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience
Co-mentor: Carl Mayers- Co-mentor: Michael Mahar
- 2026 Bio
OngoingChris Strahle
Fellow at Blueprint Biosecurity
Co-mentor: Maximilian Görlitz
Co-mentor: Sofya Lebedeva
- 2026 Bio
OngoingMaximilian Görlitz
Fellow at Blueprint Biosecurity
Co-mentor: Chris Strahle- Co-mentor: Sofya Lebedeva
- 2026 Bio
OngoingMichael Mahar
Senior Biosecurity Policy Manager, Centre for Long Term Resilience
- Co-mentor: Carl Mayers
- Co-mentor: Cassidy Nelson
- 2026 Bio
OngoingSofya Lebedeva
PhD Student at Oxford University
- Co-mentor: Chris Strahle
- Co-mentor: Maximilian Görlitz
- 2026 Bio
PastAlumniBen Bucknall
PhD student, University of Oxford & Oxford Martin AIGI Affiliate
- Q3 2026 AIS
- Q1 2026 AIS
- Q3 2025 AIS
PastJasper Götting
Head of AI Research, SecureBio
Co-mentor: Samira Nedungadi
- Q3 2026 AIS
- Q1 2026 AIS
- Q3 2025 AIS
PastErich Grunewald
Senior Researcher, Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS)
- Q3 2026 AIS
- Q1 2026 AIS
- Q3 2025 AIS
- 2023 AIS
PastKonstantinos Voudouris
Research Scientist (Cognitive Science), UK AI Security Institute
- Q3 2026 AIS
PastAlexander Gietelink Oldenziel
Director of Strategy and Outreach at Timaeus, Timaeus
Co-mentor: Alexander Strang
- Q3 2025 AIS
PastAlexander Strang
Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of California Berkeley, UC Berkeley
Co-mentor: Alexander Gietelink Oldenziel
- Q3 2025 AIS
PastChristian Ruhl
Associate Program Officer, Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness, Coefficient Giving
- 2024 AIS
PastDaniel S. Schiff
Assistant Professor and Co-Director of Governance and Responsible AI Lab (GRAIL), Purdue University
- 2023 AIS
PastDave Denkenberger
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Co-founder of ALLFED
- 2023 AIS
- 2021 AIS
PastSJ Beard
Senior Research Associate and Academic Programme Manager, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
- 2023 AIS
PastFlorian Habermacher
PhD in economics & MSc in environmental eng. Founder, Oxford Energy Economics.
- 2022 AIS
- 2021 AIS
PastJoseph Levine
Economics PhD student at the University of Oxford; focused on forecasting for longtermism, space governance, and political economy.
- 2022 AIS
PastKevin Kohler
Senior Researcher in the Risk and Resilience Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich.
- 2022 AIS
PastKonrad Szocik
Assistant professor, UITM in Rzeszow; Visiting scholar, Yale University; philosophy of space exploration; feminism; bioethics.
- 2022 AIS
PastStefan Riedener
Senior Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich.
- 2022 AIS
PastDavid Linder
PhD student working on machine learning at ETH Zürich & Research intern at DeepMind.
- 2021 AIS
PastFrancois Jacquet
Assistant Professor and the adjunct head of the Master's degree in Ethics at the Université de Strasbourg.
- 2021 AIS
PastSophie-Charlotte Fischer
Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich
- 2021 AIS
- Past
Sophie-Charlotte Fisher
Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich; research affiliate, AI Governance Research Group, Future of Humanity Institute
- 2021 AIS
PastSven-Ove Hanson
Professor of philosophy and department chair, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- 2021 AIS
PastAlumniAidan Homewood
Program Officer, Astralis Foundation
PastAlex DeMarsh
Mentor, RAND
PastCody Rushing
Mentor, Redwood Research
PastElliot Jones
Mentor, Ada Lovelace Institute
- Past
Gabby Essix
Mentor, NTI
PastPeter Wills
Mentor, University of New Brunswick
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