Hi, I’m Sebastian. I’m a mathematics graduate that spent the last two years in entrepreneurship. About nine months ago, I started to actively engage with EA through the Biosecurity Fundamentals course by BlueDot Impact (although I’ve known about EA for a long time).
My current focus is biosecurity. I am particularly interested in biotech aspects such as DNA synthesis screening, wastewater surveillance and vaccine development. Since my expertise is mostly in data analysis, computation and software development (as opposed to bioinformatics or virology) I’m struggling somewhat with getting my foot in the biotech/biosecurity door. Concretely, I’m currently working on a project for the AI Safety Fundamentals course for which I look into risks posed by AI-powered biological design tools and de novo / in silico protein design.
If you want to learn more about my past work and interests, check out my website (link in my profile). Looking forward to participating more actively here on the forums and generally in the EA community :)
Thanks for joining Sebastian! Your AISF project sounds really interesting, and I’m sure people would love to see it on the Forum some day :) - Toby (Content Manager for the EA Forum)
Hi, I’m Sebastian. I’m a mathematics graduate that spent the last two years in entrepreneurship. About nine months ago, I started to actively engage with EA through the Biosecurity Fundamentals course by BlueDot Impact (although I’ve known about EA for a long time).
My current focus is biosecurity. I am particularly interested in biotech aspects such as DNA synthesis screening, wastewater surveillance and vaccine development. Since my expertise is mostly in data analysis, computation and software development (as opposed to bioinformatics or virology) I’m struggling somewhat with getting my foot in the biotech/biosecurity door.
Concretely, I’m currently working on a project for the AI Safety Fundamentals course for which I look into risks posed by AI-powered biological design tools and de novo / in silico protein design.
If you want to learn more about my past work and interests, check out my website (link in my profile). Looking forward to participating more actively here on the forums and generally in the EA community :)
Thanks for joining Sebastian! Your AISF project sounds really interesting, and I’m sure people would love to see it on the Forum some day :)
- Toby (Content Manager for the EA Forum)