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Hi, I'm Alex!

I work on GPS-free magnetic navigation at Q-CTRL. I did my PhD (ahem, DPhil) at Oxford in long-term decision making for autonomous robots. My research interests are in probabilistic robotics, state estimation, and quantum sensing.

Outside of work, I'm into triathlon, parkrun, fantasy/sci-fi books, speedcubing.

Career

  • Q-CTRL
    Senior Scientist
    2026 — present
  • Smith Institute
    Mathematical Consultant
    2025
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    Visiting Robotics Researcher
    2019
  • Atlassian
    Software Development Intern
    2018

Education

  • PhD, Decision Making for Robotics
    University of Oxford
    2020 — 2025
  • BEng (Mechatronics) & BSci (Physics, Computer Science)
    University of Sydney
    2015 — 2019

Fitness

Year in sport

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run cycle swim gym walk other

Recent activities (last 7 days)

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  • run ×4 3h 54m
  • cycle ×2 59m
  • gym ×1 46m
  • swim ×1 36m
  • Thu 23 Apr
  • walk
  • 4.2 km · 58m · ↑42m · ♥ 108 bpm
  • run
  • 6.4 km · 42m · ↑53m · ♥ 152 bpm
  • Wed 22 Apr
  • walk
  • 3.4 km · 47m · ↑41m · ♥ 97 bpm
  • gym
  • 46m
  • Tue 21 Apr
  • walk
  • 4.2 km · 1h · ↑54m · ♥ 101 bpm
  • run
  • 4.2 km · 30m · ↑57m · ♥ 146 bpm
  • Mon 20 Apr
  • swim
  • 2.1 km · 36m · ♥ 157 bpm
  • cycle
  • 8.9 km · 29m · ↑58m · ♥ 132 bpm
  • Sun 19 Apr
  • walk
  • 3.8 km · 51m · ↑45m · ♥ 103 bpm
  • run
  • 18.2 km · 1h 55m · ↑82m · ♥ 159 bpm
  • Sat 18 Apr
  • walk
  • 3.6 km · 53m · ↑40m · ♥ 104 bpm
  • run
  • 5.1 km · 45m · ↑26m · ♥ 143 bpm
  • cycle
  • 10.7 km · 30m · ↑59m · ♥ 144 bpm

Activity history (last 12 weeks)

Sports

  • Triathlon: raced distances from Sprint to 70.3 ("half ironman") Proudest race: Brutal Half (1.9k swim / 94k bike / 23.6k run up Snowdon)
  • Running: completed 2 marathons, ran every street in Oxford (>1400!) 5k20:35 10k44:30 Half1:37:07 Marathon3:59:38

parkrun ↗

  • Completed 179 parkruns at 64 locations Latest: University Parks #217 on 18 Apr 2026 (47:04)
  • Volunteered 281 times Co-Event DirectorUniversity Parks parkrun Core Team VolunteerFlorence Park juniors