Jonas Sandbrink

Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Sentinel Bio

Working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, biosecurity, and technology governance. Building a verified researcher credential for accessing bio-capable AI models and the broader biotechnology stack.

Jonas Sandbrink

About

Jonas Sandbrink is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sentinel Bio, where he is building a verified researcher credential for accessing bio-capable AI models and the broader biotechnology stack.

Previously, Jonas was among the founding technical staff of the UK AI Security Institute (then the Foundation Model Taskforce), which he joined in the run-up to the 2023 AI Safety Summit. He founded and built AISI's chemical and biological evaluations team, running pre-deployment testing of frontier AI models. He then started the Strategic Awareness team to prepare the UK government for advanced AI capabilities.

Before the Taskforce, Jonas researched synthetic biology and AI biosecurity risks at the University of Oxford, and advised the UK Cabinet Office, Google DeepMind, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

Jonas holds a PhD from Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine.

Select Publications

AI Trajectories & Evaluation

Heitmann M, Hinrichsen T, Africa D, Sandbrink J. AISI Report, 2025
Pencharz J, Flesch T, Sandbrink J. AISI Blog, 2024
AI Security Institute Technical Staff. AISI Blog, 2024

Biosecurity

Sandbrink JB, Watson MC, Hebbeler AM, Esvelt KM. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2021
Sandbrink JB, Alley EC, Watson MC, Koblentz GD, Esvelt KM. Gene Therapy, 2023
Sandbrink JB, Koblentz GD. Vaccine, 2022
Musunuri S, Sandbrink JB, Monrad JT, Palmer MJ, Koblentz GD. mBio, 2021
Pannu J, et al. Nature Protocols, 2021
Monrad JT, Sandbrink JB, Cherian NG. npj Vaccines, 2021
Sandbrink JB, Shattock RJ. Frontiers in Immunology, 2020
Pandemic Pathogens as Biological Weapons: Revisiting German Biodefense
Sandbrink JB, Schmitt J. 49security, 2023
As self-spreading vaccine technology moves forward, dialogue on its risks should follow
Sandbrink JB. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2022

Technology Governance

Smith JA, Sandbrink JB. PLOS Biology, 2022
Sandbrink JB, Hobbs H, Swett JL, Dafoe A, Sandberg A. Science and Public Policy, 2024
Kolt N, et al. Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, 2024
Saadia H, Israiilov T, Mikhalevich E, Sandbrink J. Contemporary Security Policy, 2025

Epidemiology

How to minimize COVID's impacts once the federal emergency 'ends'
Sandbrink JB, Klotz L. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2023

Contact

Location

London, UK