Jack Dalton

I am an Engineering Biology PhD student in the Steel and Lugagne labs at the University of Oxford, part of the Nucleate UK leadership team, and a responsible research and innovation fellow at the EngBio CDT. My research focusses on using AI and robotics to engineer evolution and is supported by the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation. I am also a STEMpal.

Previously I was a Foundry Fellow at Blackbird Ventures and a Senior Policy and Communications Officer in the Australian Government working on energy and environmental policy.

I completed my undergraduate in the Jackson Lab at the Australian National University and the ARC Centre of Excellence in Synthetic Biology where I worked on bioinformatics and machine learning to understand evolution and engineer protein function. Before this I was a President's Scholar at Imperial studying molecular bioengineering.

I write about science, technology and human progress here. My writing has been published by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and the Australian National University.

My other interests include; dogs, urban planning, science, energy and infrastucture policy, photography, Touch Rugby, backcountry skiing and hiking.

Some books I've read.