Jonas Sandbrink

Jonas is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sentinel Bio, where he is building BioTrust: a verified researcher credential for accessing bio-capable AI models. Researchers verify once, and get trusted across providers. Previously, he worked at the UK AI Security Institute, where he founded and built the chemical and biological evaluations program, which informed frontier AI labs model deployments. Later, he led AISI’s Strategic Awareness work to increase government understanding and preparedness for advanced AI capabilities. Before joining the AI Security Institute, he 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, where his interdisciplinary work combined scientific risk assessment, policy analysis, and ethics to examine misuse risks from synthetic virology and AI.