Global research specialist at Anima International (August 2025 to now)
Global research specialist at Anima International (August 2025 to now)
Activities are listed by descending workload.
Estimation of:
The number of eggs and poultry meat used by companies and public institutions.
The impact and cost-effectiveness of:
Opposing the construction of broiler farms.
Telefundraising.
Accelerating welfare reforms via targeting companies.
Advocating for a ban on fur farming.
Volunteering in Poland.
Recruitment outreach by channel.
How much more companies would have to pay to sell or use higher-welfare chicken meat.
The churn rate and lifetime donations of donors acquired via telefundraising.
The population and total number of neurons of farmed animals in Norway.
The reduction in the consumption of animal-based foods resulting from school meals becoming more plant-based.
The risk of layers being culled due to bird flu in cage and cage-free systems.
The decrease in the demand for meat resulting from decreasing the value-added tax on plant-based meat.
Giving feedback on:
Corporate animal welfare campaigns.
Fundraising strategy, and monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
Political advocacy and campaigning in the European Union.
Open Wing Alliance's guidance to estimate the number of eggs used by companies, and estimates of the broilers covered by the European Chicken Commitment.
Strategic planning and cost of Anima's fellowship.
Assessing the value of participating in conferences, social calls, and team retreats.
The welfare of broilers and layers.
Posts of the Animal Welfare Alignment Newsletter.
Recruitment scoring methods and screening thresholds.
Assessing the value of AI agents.
Improving digital accessibility.
Expressing uncertainty, and defining goals probabilistically.
Anima's Impactful Policy Careers programme.
Plant-Rich Europe's call to action.
Anima's salary algorithm, and estimates of hourly cost.
Movement building plans in Central Asia.
Investigating and applying for grants:
Investigating grants to support research comparing welfare across species, quantifying pain intensities, and increasing the welfare of soil invertebrates.
Helping apply for a grant from Coefficient Giving covering 2027 to 2030:
Oversight of the collection of data about welfare reforms Anima has influenced.
Giving feedback on future goals.
Research on:
Decreasing the trade of chicken meat and eggs.
The welfare benefits of decreasing broilers' stocking density, and replacing fast-growth chicken with turkey.
Advocating for retailers in Poland to increase their sales of plant-based foods.
The share of cage-free layers across time.
Advocating for companies in Central Asia to transition to using eggs from cage-free hens.
Interventions targeting farmed salmon.
How the production of eggs is affected by the price elasticity of supply and demand.
Mitigating bird flu.
Promising welfare reforms in Norway.
Other:
Building a database with campaign ideas.
Fact-checking and providing estimates for a talk about the history of the cage-free movement.
Collecting basic details of national cage bans in European countries.
Designing a survey to evaluate the Global Impact Team's retreat.
Lightly moderating monthly meetups.
Stimulating and engaging in WhatsApp group discussions.
Giving career advice.
Onboarding and offboarding WhatsApp group members.
Providing feedback on strategy and activities.
Participating in board meetings.
Helping with cage-free campaigns by taking part in a protest, and street action to raise awareness, and commenting on social media.
Review of the cost-effectiveness analyses of 5 of the 6 charities analysed in depth by Animal Charity Evaluators in 2026.
Modelling the cost-effectiveness of creating jobs.
Quantitative research informing which Nigerian states and Pakistani regions will be targeted for implementing Kangaroo care.
Review of the cost-effectiveness analyses of 7 of the 10 charities analysed in depth by Animal Charity Evaluators in 2025.
Review of Sinergia Animal's replies to the criticism from Vetted Causes of their impact helping pigs.
Finding key publications about using large language models (LLMs) for formal verification (FV), research groups and companies using LLMs for FV, and companies using LLMs for forecasting or scenario analysis.
Red-teaming a proposal for starting a focussed research organisation (FRO) developing AI-enabled tools for FV.
Research on the effectiveness of prizes at fostering innovation, and cost-benefit analysis of the XPRIZE.
Investigation of the feasibility of decreasing the cost of respirators.
Learning about:
Forecasting and good judgment.
Reasoning transparency.
Theories of change.
Evidence reviews.
Weighted factor models.
Expert interviews.
Cost-effectiveness analyses.
Investigating the promise of starting a new organisation:
Advocating for egg replacement solutions.
Running Veganuary campaigns.
Red-teaming the estimation of suffering-adjusted days (SADs), and decisions about starting organisations to help animals.
Quickly prioritising ideas to boost income or economic growth.
Research on:
Prioritisation across the risks of different emerging technologies.
Engineered pandemics.
Early warning signals of unemployment caused by advanced AI.
Research on:
Cost of scaling the production of seaweed.
Rapid deployment of low-tech greenhouses.
Integrated model for scaling resilient food solutions.
Effects of high altitude electromagnetic pulses, and outreach to build resilience of space infrastructure against them.
Physical engineering ideas.
Effects of mitigating food shocks on biodiversity.
Leading the recruitment of PhD students:
I structured the process, designing questions, and establishing the scoring system.
I processed 57 applications, and led 29 interviews.
I supported PhD funding applications.
I estimated the cost-effectiveness of the recruitment.
Representing ALLFED in VI International Congress on Risks.
Design of a questionnaire to assess the fit to join ALLFED's Response Team.
Research on:
Identification of talented youth.
Metaculus' predictions.
Influence of the size of the founding team on the success of organisations.
Epistemics and forecasting.
Artificial intelligence.
Best practices in powerpoint presentations and making/closing deals.
Impact evaluation.
Impact evaluation.
Review of charity pages.
Assessment of the impact of Giving What We Can.
Discussion of topics around and ideas of effective altruism.
Suggestion of ideas for policies.
Attendance of meetings.
Collection of signatures.
In-depth analysis of the cost-effectiveness of tree planting.
Shallow analysis of 12 of the 100 largest UK charities, and Effektiv Spenden.
Grantmaking (shallow analysis of 6 grants, and in-depth analysis of 6 grants).
Review of in-depth analyses, and strategy documents.
Suggestions for improvement of the SoGive shallow analysis methodology.
Suggestions for improvement of the SoGive website.
Analytical interviews of 6 potential volunteers.
Activities in the context of a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials on debiasing training to improve rationality in educational settings:
Title and abstract screening of 5,000 articles.
Full text review of 260 articles.
Data extraction of 6 articles.
Review of the results and discussion sections of the output study.
Contribution of suggestions of application of Effective Altruism principles to the initiative PACT Fund of Deloitte Portugal, which finances social projects carried out by non-profit organisations.
Promotion of EACN's Giving Guide to Deloitte CEOs.
Advocacy for effective altruism within Deloitte.
Climate and sustainability:
Participation in the development of action plans for urban waste management.
Controllership, accounting and reporting:
Assistance in the implementation of the European Banking Authority (EBA) reporting framework 3.0.
Involvement in the development of a tool to analyse risk indicators.
Crisis and resilience:
Support in the assessment, development and implementation of a business continuity management system (BCMS).
Optimisation of interplanetary trajectories in Matlab.