PhD Placement Record
Through our PhD programme, we are committed to research that contributes meaningfully to scientific practice and which advances philosophy and the philosophies of the sciences. Our research is internationally recognised, and in the most recent Research Excellence Framework (2021), we were ranked joint third in the UK for the quality and impact of our work.
Placement Record
The table below is a record of the research specialisations and subsequent placements of PhD graduates from the Department of Philosophy, Logic & Scientific Method.
| Name | Year | Placement | Current Position | Thesis | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somayeh Tohidi | 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Manchester Univeristy | Postdoctoral Researcher, Manchester University | Demographic Statistical Evidence with a Humane Face | Dr Liam Kofi Bright and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Bele Wollesen | 2025 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz University Hannover | Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz University Hannover | Descriptive Assumptions and Normative Justifications in Social Choice Theory: Ambiguity, Strategic Voting and Measurement | Dr Liam Kofi Bright and Johanna Thoma |
| Ze'ev Goldschmidt | 2024 | Lady Davis Fellow, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology | Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Essays in decision theory | Professor Richard Bradley and Christian List |
| Lorenzo Sartori | 2024 | Research Collaborator, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca | Leverhulme Fellow, University of Sheffield | Epistemic representation beyond models: thought experiments, specimens, and pictures | Professor Roman Frigg and Jonathan Birch |
| Hadrien Mamou | 2024 | Private Philosophy Tutor | Private Philosophy Tutor | Framing it Right? Normative representational standards for decision theory. | Professor Richard Bradley and Campbell Brown |
| James Wills | 2023 | Departmental Lecturer in Philosophy, Pembroke College, Oxford. | Software Developer, Policy Monitor Ltd | Identity and Indistinguishability in Thermal Physics | Professor Bryan W. Roberts and Professor Roman Frigg |
| Fabian Beigang | 2023 | Data Scientist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Senior Data Scientist, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | Causal Models and Algorithmic Fairness | Professor Richard Bradley, Dr Liam Kofi Bright and Christian List |
| Sophie Kikkert | 2023 | Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities "Human Abilities", Berlin (Germany) | Postdoctoral Fellow, Munich Centre for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) | Robust Abilities: Semantics, Social Norms, and (Self-)knowledge | Professor Anna Mahtani and Christian List |
| Cecily Whiteley | 2022 | Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow, University of Cambridge | Assistant Professor, University of St Andrews | Kinds and Classification in Consciousness Science | Jonathan Birch and Christian List |
| Harris Margherita | 2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Philosophy of Science (University of Pittsburgh) | Postdoctoral Fellow, SOCRATES Centre (Leibniz University Hannover) | Conceptualizing Uncertainty: The IPCC, Model Robustness and the Weight of Evidence | Professor Roman Frigg and Dr Liam Kofi Bright |
| Nick Makins | 2021 | Lecturer in Philosophy, King's College, London | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds, Department of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science | Essays on Moral Doubt, Meta-ethics, and Choice | Professor Richard Bradley and Campbell Brown |
| Nicolas Côté | 2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto, Department of Philosophy | Lecturer in Applied Ethics, University of Glasgow, Department of Philosophy | Measuring Freedom, and its Value | Professor Alex voorhoeve and Campbell Brown |
| Christina Easton | 2020 | LSE Fellow, LSE | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick | Liberalism, education, and promoting 'British values' in schools | Professor Alex voorhoeve and Luc Bovens |
| Joe Roussos | 2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Futures Studies | Pro Futura Fellow, Stockholm University | Policymaking under scientific uncertainty | Professor Roman Frigg and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Chloe de Canson | 2020 | Assistant Professor, University of Groningen | Assistant Professor, University of Groningen | Beliefs about the unobserved | Professor Anna Mahtani and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Bastian Steuwer | 2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Rutgers’s Center for Population-Level Bioethics | Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ashoka University | One-by-one: moral theory for separate persons | Mike Otsuka and Professor Alex Voorhoeve |
| Todd Karhu | 2019 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University | Assistant Professor, Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy & Law, King's College London | Matters of life and death | Mike Otsuka and Campbell Brown |
| David Kinney | 2019 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Santa Fe Institute | Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Washington University | The problem of granularity for scientific explanation | Luc Bovens and Jonathan Birch |
| Philippe van Basshuysen | 2019 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Leibniz Universität Hannover | Assistant Professor, Wageningen University & Research | Philosophical and ethical aspects of economic design | Luc Bovens and Professor Bryan W. Roberts |
| Aron Vallinder | 2018 | Research Fellow, Forethought Foundation, Oxford | Research Fellow, Forethought Foundation, Oxford | Bayesian variations: essays on the structure, object, and dynamics of Credence | Professor Richard Bradley and Professor Anna Mahtani |
| Camilla Colombo | 2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Univesity of Milan | Postdoctoral Researcher, RWTH Aachen University | The doing/allowing distinction: causal relevance and moral significance | Mika Otsuka and Susanne Burri |
| Silvia Milano | 2018 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford | Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Exeter | De se beliefs and centred uncertainty | Christian List and Professor Anna Mahtani |
| Deren Olgun | 2017 | Principal Economist, Office of Rail and Road | Senior Manager, Strategy& | An Explanatory Account of Practical Reasons | Christian List and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Alexandru Marcoci | 2017 | LSE Fellow, LSE | Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge | Formal explorations in collective and individual rationality | Luc Bovens and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Christopher Marshall | 2017 | University Teacher, University of Sheffield | - | Bringing about Equality | Michael Otsuka and Professor Alex Voorhoeve |
| Nicolas Wuethrich | 2017 | Strategy Consultant, Roland Berger | Senior Consultant, Roland Berger | Robustness, evidence, and uncertainty: an exploration of policy applications of robustness analysis | Professor Roman Frigg and Professor Alex Voorhoeve |
| Thomas Rowe | 2017 | Postdoc in Philosophy, Virginia Tech | Lecturer in Philosophy at Kings College, London | Competing Claims, Risk and Ambiguity | Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Michael Otsuka |
| Mantas Radzvilas | 2016 | Lecturer, Vilnius University | Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, University of Konstanz | Strategic interdependence, hypothetical bargaining, and mutual advantage in non-cooperative games | Jason Alexander and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Katherine Furman | 2016 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Durham University | Lecturer in PPE and Director of the PPE programme, University of Liverpool | AIDS Denialism in South Africa: a case study in the rationality and ethics of science policy | Luc Bovens and Katie Steele |
| James Nguyen | 2016 | Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Notre Dame | Assistant Professor, Stockholm University | How models represent | Professor Roman Frigg and Miklós Rédei |
| SJ Beard | 2015 | Research Fellow, University of Oxford | Academic Programme Manager and Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge | Persons and Value: a thesis in population axiology | Michael Otsuka and Kai Spiekermann |
| Johannes Himmelreich | 2015 | Postdoc at Humboldt University of Berlin | Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, Department of Public Administration and International Affairs | Agency as difference-making: causal foundations of moral responsibility | Christian List and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Rosa Runhardt | 2015 | Secondary Maths Teacher, KCL Honorary Research Fellow, Researchers in Schools | Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen | Causal inquiry in the social sciences: the promise of process tracing | Luc Bovens and Katie Steele |
| Hamid Seyedsayamdost | 2014 | Visiting Fellow, University of Piuttsburgh | - | Reproducibility of empirical findings: experiments in philosophy and beyond | Luc Bovens and Jason Alexander |
| Hlynur Orri Stefánsson | 2014 | Postdoc at Collège d'études mondiales | Professor, Stockholm University | Decision theory and counterfactual evaluation | Professor Richard Bradley and Katie Steele |
| Susanne Burri | 2014 | Postdoc at St Gallen | Assistant Professor - University of Constance Department of Philosophy | A rights-based perspective on permissible harm | Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Luc Bovens |
| Mareile Drechsler | 2013 | Consultant, International Organisation (World Bank) | Consultant, International Organisation (World Bank) | Rationality; decisions and large worlds | Professor Richard Bradley and Katie Steele |
| Seamus Bradley | 2013 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy | Product Technician, Iliad Solutions Ltd | Determinism and Inaccurate Models | Professor Richard Bradley and Professor Roman Frigg |
| Dean Peters | 2013 | Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg | - | How to be a scientific realist (if at all): A study of partial realism | John Worrall and Professor Roman Frigg |
| Hai Hong | 2013 | Adjunct Professor; Department of Marketing and International Business; at Nanyang Business School; Singapore | Adjunct Professor; Department of Marketing and International Business; at Nanyang Business School; Singapore | Epistemological issues in the theory of Chinese medicine. | John Worrall |
| Benjamin Ferguson | 2013 | Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Bayreuth | Associate Professor, University of Warwick Philosophy Department | The paradox of exploitation: A new solution | Professor Richard Bradley and Professor Alex Voorhoeve |
| Stuart Yasgur | 2012 | Director at NGO (Ashoka) | Director at NGO (Ashoka) | Reasons; rationality and preferences. | Professor Richard Bradley |
| Esha Senchaudhuri | 2012 | Temporary Lectureship; University of York | Associate Director, Content Marketing at Cytel | A Critique of Pure Public Reason. | Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Chandran Kukathas |
| Fernando Morrett | 2012 | Guest Class Teacher in Philosophy, LSE | - | Advances on a Methodology of Design and Engineering in Economics and Politcal Science. | Nancy Cartwright |
| Christopher Thompson | 2011 | Temporary Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Cambridge | Principal Advisor; Research Associate in Philosophy at New Zealand Treasury; Victoria University of Wellington | Beyond Epistemic Democracy: The identification and pooling of information by groups of political agents. | Professor Richard Bradley and Christian List |
| Alice Obrecht | 2011 | Senior Researcher, Think Tank: One World Trust | Senior Research Fellow, Overseas Development Institute (ODI) | Getting It Right: An account of the moral agency of NGOs | Professor Alex Voorhoeve and Hakan Seckinelgin |
| Ittay Nissan-Rozen | 2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Hebrew University | Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Hebrew University | Doing the Best One Can. | Professor Richard Bradley and Professor Alex Voorhoeve |
| Roberto Fumagalli | 2011 | Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Bayreuth | Lecturer in Political Economy, King's College London | Philosophical foundations of neuroeconomics: economics and the revolutionary challenge from neuroscience. | Jason Alexander and Professor Richard Bradley |
| Foad Dizadji-Bahmani | 2011 | LSE Fellow in Philosophy | Assistant Professor in Philosophy, California State University; Los Angeles | Neo-Nagelian reduction: a statement, defence, and application | Professor Roman Frigg |
| Bengt Autzen | 2011 | Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy, University of Calgary | Lecturer, University of Cork, Department of Philosophy | Evidence; Probability and Evolution: Studies in the Epistemology of Molecular Phylogenetics. | Professor Roman Frigg |