about
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-CTRLSenior Scientist
- Smith InstituteMathematical Consultant
- NASA Jet Propulsion LaboratoryVisiting Robotics Researcher
- AtlassianSoftware Development Intern
education
- PhD, Decision Making for RoboticsUniversity of Oxford
- BEng (Mechatronics) & BSci (Physics, Computer Science)University of Sydney
fitness
Year in sport
run cycle swim gym walk other
Activity history (last 12 weeks)
Recent activities (last 7 days)
×3 ×4 6h 16m ▸ show details
- run ×4 4h 48m
- cycle ×3 1h 27m
- Tue 8 Sep
- cycle
- 4.5 km · 13m · ↑103m · ♥ 114 bpm
- Sun 6 Sep
- run
- 30.2 km · 2h 57m · ↑128m · ♥ 166 bpm
- Sat 5 Sep
- run
- 5 km · 45m · ↑21m · ♥ 139 bpm
- Fri 4 Sep
- walk
- 4.5 km · 57m · ↑41m · ♥ 107 bpm
- walk
- 4.3 km · 49m · ↑30m · ♥ 109 bpm
- Thu 3 Sep
- run
- 5.5 km · 37m · ↑70m · ♥ 150 bpm
- cycle
- 10.6 km · 35m · ↑84m · ♥ 126 bpm
- Wed 2 Sep
- run
- 5.3 km · 29m · ↑8m · ♥ 164 bpm
- cycle
- 11.7 km · 38m · ↑44m · ♥ 132 bpm
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 10k43:25 Half1:37:07 Marathon3:59:38
parkrun ↗
- Completed 188 parkruns at 65 locations Latest: University Parks #231 on 25 Jul 2026 (25:43)
- Volunteered 302 times Co-Event DirectorUniversity Parks parkrun Core Team VolunteerFlorence Park juniors