James Smith
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Updated 03/22/26James Andrew Smith is a biosecurity researcher with a DPhil in medical sciences from the University of Oxford, where he also holds an undergraduate degree in biological sciences. He conducted postdoctoral and senior postdoctoral research at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences (NDORMS) and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine at Oxford. He later held positions as a Research Fellow at RAND and a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Long-Term Resilience, working on biological risks from emerging technologies across academic, industry, and policy settings. In 2022 he co-authored the PLOS Biology paper "Biosecurity in an age of open science" (with Jonas Sandbrink), which examined how open science practices interact with biosecurity risks — a paper supported by the Long-Term Future Fund. More recently, he co-authored the landmark December 2024 Science paper on mirror life risks and now serves as Director of the Mirror Biology Dialogues Fund, an organization supporting expert dialogue on the risks posed by mirror biology.
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