Head of Strategic Awareness, UK AI Security Institute
Researcher and policy expert working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, biosecurity, and technology governance. Leading efforts to understand AI trajectories and inform government preparedness for emerging technologies.
Jonas Sandbrink leads work on strategic awareness at the UK AI Safety Institute, the government body that evaluates frontier AI systems. Previously, he founded and led AISI's chemical and biological evaluations team.
Before joining AISI, he researched synthetic biology and AI biosecurity risks at the University of Oxford, and advised the UK Cabinet Office, Google DeepMind, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative on biosecurity.
Jonas holds a PhD from Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine, where his interdisciplinary work combined scientific risk assessment, policy analysis, and ethics to examine misuse risks from synthetic virology and AI.
AI Trajectories & Evaluation
Biosecurity
Technology Governance
Epidemiology