Bio

Hello! I haven’t made substantial updates here in a while, and probably won’t in the near future. For a more up-to-date bio, please see my LinkedIn.

Previously, I worked for Fathom Radiant, where I spend my days thinking about optics and my evenings thinking about AI governance and strategy. Before that, I was a graduate student at Princeton University in Jeff Thompson’s group. My research focused on studying materials and devices that could be used to build a “quantum internet”, sending quantum information over long distances. Even farther back, I completed my undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Minnesota, where I worked on a range of topics, including dark matter detection, galactic astronomy, polymer nanopatterning, and organic semiconductors. You can read more about my research here

If you’d like to get in contact, you can email me at christopher.phenicie[at]gmail[dot]com or schedule a meeting with me here.