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
Recent activities (last 7 days)
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- run ×5 3h 10m
- gym ×2 1h 40m
- swim ×1 42m
- cycle ×1 36m
- Tue 9 Jun
- gym
- 49m
- Mon 8 Jun
- swim
- 2.2 km · 42m · ♥ 140 bpm
- run
- 5 km · 36m · ↑41m · ♥ 138 bpm
- Sun 7 Jun
- walk
- 4.1 km · 53m · ↑44m · ♥ 102 bpm
- run
- 10 km · 49m · ↑37m · ♥ 182 bpm
- run
- 5.5 km · 34m · ↑16m · ♥ 162 bpm
- Sat 6 Jun
- run
- 5 km · 25m · ↑19m · ♥ 176 bpm
- Fri 5 Jun
- walk
- 3.6 km · 43m · ↑39m · ♥ 102 bpm
- Thu 4 Jun
- run
- 7.7 km · 45m · ↑18m · ♥ 91 bpm
- cycle
- 9.1 km · 36m · ↑42m · ♥ 120 bpm
- Wed 3 Jun
- walk
- 3.3 km · 40m · ↑35m · ♥ 99 bpm
- gym
- 51m
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 10k43:25 Half1:37:07 Marathon3:59:38
parkrun ↗
- Completed 183 parkruns at 64 locations Latest: University Parks #224 on 06 Jun 2026 (25:22)
- Volunteered 291 times Co-Event DirectorUniversity Parks parkrun Core Team VolunteerFlorence Park juniors