Connor Flexman

Connor Flexman is a generalist researcher and project manager with a background in mathematical physics. He studied at Brown University, where his 2016 undergraduate thesis investigated detection methods for the LUX dark matter experiment. He is an active member of the rationalist and effective altruism communities, with a LessWrong presence since 2016. In April 2019 he received a $20,000 grant from the Long-Term Future Fund to perform independent research on modern institutional incentive failures, their dependencies, and vital factors for aligned institutional design, in collaboration with researcher John Salvatier. He later joined Alvea, an EA-aligned biotechnology startup focused on rapidly developing pandemic vaccines, which ran from early 2022 until winding down in 2023. He has contributed to community research projects on topics including forecasting, COVID-19, and AI threat modeling, and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

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