Thom Dixon is undertaking a PhD at Macquarie University. He is an honorary research fellow with Remi AI, an artificial intelligence company based in Australia and the US. In 2018, he completed a Non-resident WSD-Handa Fellowship with the Pacific Forum on synthetic biology and Australian foreign policy. Thom is an Emerging Leader alumni of the 2017 EU-Australia Leadership Forum and he is the National Research Assessments Leader at Macquarie University. He regularly writes on issues that cross research, innovation and international affairs. He is particularly interested in the convergence of engineering biology and artificial intelligence and the impact they will have on international relations.