Bio

Rosie is an applied researcher, focusing on Global Health & Development. Before joining Founders Pledge in March 2022, she attained a PhD in Biopsychology from the University of Michigan; her published work is on the topic of cognitive evolution (and involved a lot of running around after monkeys). She has a masters degree in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University, and her BA is in Biological Sciences, from Oxford University. She lives in London, where she is trying to fix her very wonky currently-transatlantic accent, and she enjoys anything outdoors.

Q&A with Rosie

Q: If you could choose anyone famous (real or fictional) to have dinner with who would they be and why?

Nerdy answer but probably WD Hamilton, who was a brilliant theoretical evolutionary biologist (‘The Selfish Gene’ by Richard Dawkins popularised his ideas). He was also an interesting character by all accounts; his obituary reads ‘he lived for ideas, was especially partial to unpopular ideas, and thought little of his own safety’.

Q: As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

A microbiologist! I read one of those ‘Horrible Science’ books, and got really obsessed with the idea that there’s this whole world that’s too small for us to see….

Q: If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?

A comedy melodrama starring Maggie Gyllenhaal.