About

Matt founded Adapt Research in 2015 and leads each project.

Leveraging 15 years experience in producing published peer-reviewed research, Matt collaborates with research assistants and subject matter experts according to the questions being answered.

Currently, Matt’s focus is helping to solve the world’s biggest problems, including analysing and developing mitigating options for global catastrophic and existential risks, such as extreme pandemics, nuclear war, and other cross-border risks.

Matt’s published peer-reviewed research spans:

  • global catastrophic and existential risk
  • public health
  • health technology assessment
  • health economics
  • health quality & patient safety
  • human factors
  • teamwork
  • artificial intelligence & society
  • ethics
  • education
  • philosophy of biology and evolution.

See Matt talk about his 2011 PhD on the philosophy of human cognitive evolution, where he explain that As we build our world we build our minds.