In January of 2006 I took up an Australian Research Council Post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Queensland. In July of 2006 the grant and I moved to the University of Sydney. In January of 2009 I took up a Research Fellowship at the University of Sydney.

As of July 2011 I will starting an ARC 5 year Australian Research Fellowship working on issues in metaphysics.

My research interests lie primarily in metaphysics, though I have been known to dabble in related areas. In particular I’m interested in mereology, space-time, composition and persistence. I mostly tend to think about chunks of matter and randomly arranged configurations of particulars. If pushed, I sometimes think about trees, beetles and couches, and if I’m feeling very resilient, occasionally even persons. The advantage of random configurations of particulars is that unlike persons, they can’t answer back.

That’s not to say I don’t care about ethics. I make a concerted effort not to eat people. Even people I don’t much care for. And while I’m not completely sure that either John Howard or oysters are people, (though I know which way my credences would go in each case), I wouldn’t eat either of them.

I’m a native Tasmanian (Hobartian) so I love mountainous rocky peaks and scraggly forests, green rolling hills and mossy valleys. None of which one sees a lot of in Sydney. But Sydney compensates with its plethora of Indian restaurants.