Current

LSE, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy (since 2007)

(joint appointment in the Department of Government and in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method)

(previously Reader [2005-7] and Lecturer [2002-5] in Political Science)

Editor, Economics and Philosophy

Associate Editor, Episteme: Journal of Social Epistemology

Editorial board member, Journal of Logic and Computation, Global Policy, RMM (Rationality, Markets and Morals)

Erdös Number: 3

Previous

Australian National University, RSSS, Postdoctoral Fellow (2003)

Nuffield College, Oxford, Postdoctoral [Prize] Research Fellow (2001-3)

Visiting

Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Fellow (Autumn 2011)

Princeton University, Center for Human Values, Visiting Fellow (2009/10)

Australian National University, RSSS, Program Visitor / Visiting Fellow (summer 2006, summer 2007, March/April 2011)

Princeton University, Center for Human Values, Visiting Research Scholar (2006)

University of Konstanz, PPM Group, Visiting Fellow (summer 2005) 

Harvard University, CBRSS, Visiting Scholar (2000/1)

MIT, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, Visiting Scholar (2000/1)

Australian National University, RSSS, Harsanyi Program Visitor (2000)

Education

D.Phil. in Politics, Oxford (Nuffield College) (2001)

M.Phil. in Politics, Oxford (St. Peter's College) (1998)

B.A. in Mathematics & Philosophy, Oxford (St. Peter's College) (1996)

Distinctions

5th Social Choice and Welfare Prize (with Franz Dietrich), Society for Social Choice and Welfare (awarded at the Society's international meeting in Moscow, 2010)

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship, Princeton University Center for Human Values (2009-10)

Named as one of 10 'rising stars' in British academia by Times Higher Education (2008)

Philip Leverhulme Prize in Philosophy (2007)

Nuffield Foundation New Career Development Fellowship (with Franz Dietrich) (2005)

Scholarship, Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin (2001)

Junior Scholar, NSF Workshop Mathematical Models of Individual and Public Choice, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, UC Irvine (2000)

Doctoral Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (1998-2001)

ESRC Research Studentship (1998-2000)

Oxford University Scatcherd European Scholarship (1996-8)

St. Peter's College Domus Scholarship (1994-6)

Scholarship, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (1992-8)

National First Prize, Jugend forscht, Mathematics and Computer Science (1990)