I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in Philosophy at Yale University. My research trajectory is highly interdisciplinary, reflecting a continuous drive to use rigorous formal methods to answer fundamental philosophical questions. Today, this takes the form of Evolutionary Epistemology in silico, where I use the machine learning technique of Evolutionary Meta-Learning to formally simulate Darwinian evolution and probe classical debates in cognitive science, such as Nativism vs. Empiricism.
Before coming to Yale, I was a Hertz Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Philosophy of Physics at the University of Bonn. Prior to that, I completed a DPhil (Ph.D.) in Philosophy at the University of Oxford, supported by a Clarendon scholarship at Reuben College. My DPhil thesis developed the ISE Method of topological redescription, arguing for a "Dynamics-First" view of spacetime topology.
Concurrently with my DPhil, I was a Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow at the Barrio RQI research group, based primarily out of the University of Waterloo and the Perimeter Institute.
Prior to my DPhil, I completed Oxford's one-year MSt in Philosophy of Physics at Pembroke College—an excellent program for philosophically-minded physicists.
Before my transition into philosophy, I completed my Ph.D. in Physics (Quantum Information) at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo. There, I worked with Eduardo Martin-Martinez (Barrio RQI) and Robert B. Mann.
My physics Ph.D. thesis (arXiv) established the foundations of the Interpolated Collision Model formalism, a tool for studying the dynamics of open quantum systems undergoing generic repeated updates. This formalism has been applied to study purification, thermalization, friction, and the Unruh Effect.