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)
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- cycle ×3 2h 59m
- run ×4 2h 57m
- swim ×1 20m
- Mon 27 Jul
- walk
- 2 km · 26m · ↑26m · ♥ 108 bpm
- run
- 9.8 km · 1h 10m · ↑55m · ♥ 144 bpm
- Sun 26 Jul
- walk
- 3.7 km · 49m · ↑41m · ♥ 105 bpm
- cycle
- 39.1 km · 1h 38m · ↑315m
- Sat 25 Jul
- run
- 5 km · 25m · ↑21m · ♥ 172 bpm
- Fri 24 Jul
- walk
- 3.9 km · 52m · ↑38m · ♥ 107 bpm
- cycle
- 8.1 km · 27m · ↑62m · ♥ 125 bpm
- Thu 23 Jul
- walk
- 6 km · 1h 23m · ↑37m · ♥ 99 bpm
- cycle
- 16 km · 52m · ↑88m · ♥ 126 bpm
- Wed 22 Jul
- run
- 8.8 km · 55m · ↑239m · ♥ 176 bpm
- run
- 4.1 km · 26m · ↑17m · ♥ 157 bpm
- Tue 21 Jul
- swim
- 1.1 km · 20m · ♥ 123 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 ?? times Co-Event DirectorUniversity Parks parkrun Core Team VolunteerFlorence Park juniors