Jose Groh
Bio
Jose Groh is an astrophysicist and independent researcher who received a career transition grant to pursue AI safety and risk mitigation research. He holds a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Sao Paulo (Brazil), earned at age 25, and built a 15-year academic research career studying massive stars, supernovae, and black holes. He served as Professor of Astrophysics at Trinity College Dublin (until 2022), as Senior Researcher at the University of Geneva under an Ambizione award, and as a researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. During his academic career he published over 170 peer-reviewed papers and delivered more than 40 keynote presentations at international conferences. After leaving academia he has been based in Leiden, Netherlands, and has been developing skills in machine learning and AI, including mechanistic interpretability, as part of his transition toward AI safety research.
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- Personal Website
- https://jgroh.org/
- Twitter / X
- LessWrong
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Grants
from Long-Term Future Fund
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- Last Updated
- Mar 22, 2026, 10:29 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 20, 2026, 2:53 AM UTC