Contact

Before emailing, please:

• Browse our Publications page to confirm TSG's research is the right fit for your interests.
• Check the Vacancies page for currently funded doctoral positions and TAIG studentships — these are your best route to full funding.
• Apply through one of Oxford's doctoral programmes:
  • Engineering Science DPhil (deadline: early December)
  • Computer Science DPhil
  • AIMS CDT (deadline: mid January)
  List one or both TSG PIs (Fazl Barez, Robert Trager) as your proposed supervisors — you do not need to list both.
• Funding: Oxford fees are substantial, especially for overseas students. Before emailing us about funding concerns, please explore TAIG studentships, third-party scholarships (CAIF, Future of Life Institute, Rhodes, Clarendon), and whether your current employer offers PhD sponsorship.

Only email us if you have specific questions not answered by the website. We cannot respond to generic expressions of interest.

If you do email, please include:

• Which TSG research direction interests you and why — be specific
• One non-obvious insight or question from a paper of ours
• Your CV and links to any publications or code
• Your funding situation and what you have already explored

Check the Vacancies page first — postdoctoral positions are listed there as they arise, including TAIG-funded fellowships.

If no position is currently advertised and you want to make a speculative enquiry, please send:

• Your CV
• A statement of max 300 words on your research interests and how they connect to TSG's work
• Fellowship schemes you are eligible for or applying to (e.g. Marie Curie, Newton, Leverhulme, RAEng, TAIG)

We welcome visiting researchers and PhD students. Funding is typically secured by the visitor, but we can support visa applications and provide workspace.

Please send:

1. CV
2. Current programme (MSc / PhD / Postdoc / other)
3. Right to work in the UK (yes / no / requires visa)
4. Proposed start and end dates
5. Research interest or project proposal referencing specific TSG work you would like to build on

If you are a current Oxford student there are several ways to get involved — see the Vacancies page for a summary of options.

Please email from your Oxford address and include:

• Your programme and year
• Availability and proposed timeline
• A short description of your research interest referencing TSG's current work

We actively collaborate with researchers, think tanks, government bodies, and civil society organisations. Please tell us:

• Your organisation and role
• The nature of the collaboration
• Relevant timelines or constraints

We are grateful for support from individuals, foundations, and institutions who share our belief that rigorous, independent research on AI safety and governance matters.

We welcome enquiries about:

• Individual donations
• Institutional or philanthropic grants
• Sponsoring a specific research direction (Interpretability, Safety & Alignment, Technical Governance, or Societal Impact)

Before emailing, you are also welcome to use the support form on our homepage — it is the quickest way to tell us about your interest and we will follow up personally.

If you prefer to email directly, please include:

• Your name and organisation
• The nature of your interest (individual / institutional / direction-specific)
• Any relevant timelines or constraints

TSG Lab is based at the University of Oxford. Formal donations are processed through Oxford's giving infrastructure — we will discuss the right mechanism with you directly.

Please include your publication or outlet, your deadline, and the topic you would like to discuss.

If your enquiry does not fit any of the categories above, you are welcome to email us — but we cannot promise a response.

To show you have read this far: search for the Wikipedia page of Claude Shannon — the mathematician who invented information theory and is the reason the word "bit" exists.

Find the sentence on that page that describes his unusual collection of unicycles and paste it into your subject line, followed by [TSG-GENERAL].

If you can find it, you are probably the kind of person we would enjoy hearing from.