Tom Cernev
Biography
Publications
Tom Cernev is an engineer at Shoal Group in Adelaide, Australia, with degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Theoretical Physics from the University of Adelaide, and a Master’s in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge. Tom is a Research Affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, the South Australian Chair of the Sustainable Engineering Society for Engineers Australia, and a contributing paper author for the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.

Space, sustainability and security: the intersection of domains
Mining asteroids? Growing food in space? Good governance will be essential to sharing the realm beyond Earth.

A minute to midnight: reversing environmental tipping points
Planetary boundaries and the role they play in global security are not as remote as they sound. And it’s time to listen.