Christian Schroeder de Witt

Associate Professor @ University of Oxford. AI Assurance / Multi-Agent Security. EPSRC Open Fellow (incoming) + RAEng RF + Schmidt AI2050 ECF. PI wittlab.ai

Germany

About

Experience

  • University of Oxford ()
    • Associate Professor
      Jun 2026 - Present · 2 mos

      I am PI of wittlab.ai in the Department of Engineering Science. My research if funded by an UKRI EPSRC Open Fellowship (£2.3m), a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship, and a Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellowship amongst other funding totaling >£3.5m. We work on foundational assurance for multi-agent / agentic AI systems, with a focus on multi-agent security and worst-case guarantees for safety and security. We also develop novel agentic reasoning capabilities, as well as conduct foundational work in interpretability, reinforcement learning, and game theory.

    • Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Early Career Fellow
      Dec 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    • Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
      Sep 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Stipendiary Lecturer in Computer Science at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford
    Oct 2024 - Apr 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos

    I am tutoring a group of 23 undergraduate students in the Computer Science department's Machine Learning course.

  • Senior Research Associate in Machine Learning at University of Oxford
    Jan 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 11 mos

    Senior Researcher with Torr Vision Group (torrvision.com) (since March 2024) incoming UKIC RAEng Postdoctoral Research Fellow (from Nov 2024) Co-PI on OpenAI Superalignment Fast Grant (USD327k) Funded by Prof. Phil Torr's Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowship Until Dec 2023: PDRA @ FLAIR (with Prof. Jakob Foerster)

  • International Strategy Forum Fellow at Schmidt Futures
    Jun 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr

    Selected as a "30 Under 35 Rising Strategist (Europe)" to work with the European Council on Foreign Relations at the 2022 International Schmidt Strategy Forum. Nomination by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford followed call to identify "one of the most exemplar individuals [she has] encountered in the past ten years."

  • Research Advisor (Expert: AI/Climate) at SETI Institute
    Jun 2022 - Jul 2022 · 2 mos

    Advising US Department of Energy projects on Concentrated Solar Power, Fortifying the Grid, and CO2 Sequestration Geomechanics at FDL’s highest level of seniority as part of NASA Frontier Development Lab. All three projects were awarded prizes. Paid position.