Alex Markham, postdoc
Alex joins the section for Statistics and Probability Theory as a postdoc working with Copenhagen Causality Lab on 1 September 2024.
Alex (pronouns: they/them) will be working with Niels Richard Hansen, focusing on algebraic and computational problems in causal modelling.
Alex's research background is primarily in causal machine learning (particularly structure learning, using tools from combinatorics and algebraic statistics), a specialization that grew out of their earlier interests in the philosophy of math, philosophy of mind, and neuroscience.
Alex has a BA in Mathematics and Philosophy from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX, USA, and an MS in Logic, Computation, and Methodology, from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Alex did their PhD with Moritz Grosse-Wentrup in the Research Group Neuroinformatics at the University of Vienna, where they studied how neural activity gives rise to cognition and behaviour, with a special focus on causal discovery methods, neuroimaging data, and brain-computer interfaces.
“My research has led me to institutions in a number of cities, including San Antonio, Pittsburgh, Munich, Vienna, Stockholm, Chicago, and now, happily, Copenhagen!” says Alex.
You can find them in office 04.3.06.