Hi, I'm Michael. I currently work in international science policy for the Australian Government. (Anything I write online represents my personal view.) I've also studied robotics and physics at the University of Sydney. I'm interested in how countries and companies will manage the emerging technologies of the 21st century for both social and economic gain.
Myriads of Tiny Architects, my blog on innovation and society
Projects & Software
180 Degrees Consulting, a global student consultancy that works with socially conscious organisations to help improve their operations; I'm the Chief Information Officer
The New Scientist Prize, a university science writing prize I founded
Munworks, my Model UN software, with profits donated to UN humanitarian agencies
Writing
- Why study science? This essay won SydneyTalent's "Science vs. Arts" competition, and was then printed by The Australian newspaper.
- When Geneva meets genetics, on the emerging field of science diplomacy and some avenues for Australian participation. This was published in The Sydney Globalist, an undergraduate international affairs magazine at Sydney University, where it was named best article in the issue.
- The fabric of humanity. This piece won the Yale-based Global21 Foundation's international competition asking students to imagine life in 2021.
- A binary world: China, the United States, and digital oceans, on the future of their relationship as technology changes the way trade is conducted. This article was published in Perspective, the national journal of the UN Youth Association of Australia.
- A sunburnt country, on solar research in Australia, also published in The Sydney Globalist.
- My Engineering Honours thesis on self-reconfiguring robots - a fascinatingly powerful technology.
- My Physics Honours thesis, on how physics education affects scientific literacy.
- A self-targeting missile system using computer vision, one of my final year robotics projects
Visualisations
- Research spending ranks - which nations are investing in the future?
- Sport vs science - which Olympics is more important?
