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.