Alexandru Marcoci

Assistant Professor in Global Risk and Resilience (AI) - from April 2025

Alex is a social scientist working at the intersection of futures studies, AI policy, expert decision-making and risk management. He is currently on an 18-month secondment to the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology where he focuses on the emerging and longer-term challenges and opportunities presented by advanced AI systems. His research has been supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NESTA Foundation, British Academy, Open Philanthropy, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and ai@cam. You can read his published work in Nature Human Behaviour, Royal Society Open Science, Behavior Research Methods, Behavioural Public Policy, and other academic journals. Alex also serves as the co-Director of the Institute for Replication, an initiative working on improving the credibility of social and behavioural science by systematically reproducing and replicating research findings in leading academic journals.

Alex has previously been a Senior Research Associate in AI Risk and Foresight at CSER and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, as well as an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He has a PhD in Philosophy from the London School of Economics and Political Science (2018).

You can find out more about Alex’s research interests and outputs on his personal webpage: http://alexandrumarcoci.com/

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