Professor Anna Alexandrova

I study how scientists navigate morally charged and complex phenomena and the role of formal tools such as models and indicators in their scholarly and public work. I have collaborated with the social scientists at the Bennett School for Public Policy on wellbeing and infrastructure. I was the Principal Investigator on Expertise Under Pressure project at the Centre for Humanities and Social Change 2018-2022. In 2015-2018 I co-directed, with Stephen John, the Limits of the Numerical project; here is a recording of a talk I gave on this topic. I served as a Programme Director in Philosophy and Ethics of AI at the Leverhulme Centre for Future of Intelligence, where I worked on the this report for the Nuffield Foundation.

Before coming to Cambridge I taught at the University of Missouri St Louis, Washington University in St Louis, and received my PhD in Philosophy and Science Studies at the University of California San Diego. I am fellow of King's College where I direct studies in History and Philosophy of Science.

For more information about my past and present work see:

• PhilPeople
• Ask Me Anything on Reddit Philosophy
• Sci Phi Podcast interview 
• Full list of interviews and popular writings
• Personal website
• Full profile on the HPS Department website