Alex is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Neuroscience, Ethics & Society team (NEUROSEC) and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and the Humanities (WEH), most recently working on the MRC Pathfinder project which aims to harness health informatics and data science to improve mental health outcomes. Alex’s current research focuses primarily on ethical issues in mental health big data, and ethics of early intervention. Alex also established and co-Chairs the Mental Health Data Ethics Leadership group with Prof. Ilina Singh. Previously, Alex worked on the ROADMAP project, an EU-wide consortium project which aimed to improve outcomes for people with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Prior to Oxford, Alex held teaching and research positions at the University of Bristol Centre for Ethics in Medicine, as well as research positions at University College London Medical School Research Department for Medical Education, and the University of East London Institute for Health and Human Development. Alex has also been a visiting tutor at the Yale University Summer Institute in Bioethics.

Alex has a PhD in Bioethics from the University of Bristol. His thesis focused on the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of human enhancement technologies. His thesis focused on the philosophical, ethical, and social implications of human enhancement technologies. Subsequently, via a Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society Small Grant, he took forward the conclusions of his thesis, examining the relation between human enhancement and public health, which remains a significant research interest. Alongside this Alex’s interests include neuroethics and neurotechnologies, ethics in psychiatry and mental health, ethics in dementia, ethics in artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, philosophy of medicine, epistemology – in particular debates in realism and anti-realism, and interdisciplinary methodology in applied and empirical ethics.

Before returning to academia to take his PhD Alex spent three years working in patient advocacy and policy research in genetics, and prior to this he took a BA in Philosophy and an MA in Healthcare Ethics at the University of Leeds.