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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 ×2 1h 47m
  • gym ×2 1h 30m
  • cycle ×2 1h 11m
  • swim ×1 41m
  • Wed 15 Apr
  • gym
  • 46m
  • Tue 14 Apr
  • cycle
  • 8.8 km · 27m · ↑74m · ♥ 133 bpm
  • Mon 13 Apr
  • swim
  • 2.4 km · 41m · ♥ 145 bpm
  • run
  • 5 km · 32m · ↑43m · ♥ 157 bpm
  • Sat 11 Apr
  • run
  • 10 km · 1h 15m · ↑282m · ♥ 136 bpm
  • cycle
  • 14.7 km · 44m · ↑80m · ♥ 134 bpm
  • Fri 10 Apr
  • gym
  • 43m

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 178 parkruns at 64 locations Latest: Henley Wood, Oswestry #286 on 04 Apr 2026 (28:42)
  • Volunteered 279 times Co-Event DirectorUniversity Parks parkrun Core Team VolunteerFlorence Park juniors