Ben Warner

Ben Warner is a British data scientist.

Ben Warner
Alma materUniversity College London (PhD)
Known forScientific Advisory Group for Emergencies
Scientific career
FieldsData science
InstitutionsASI Data Science
University College London
Vote Leave
ThesisEngineering the properties of magnetic molecules through the interaction with the surface (2014)
Doctoral advisorCyrus Hirjibehedin

Education

Warner earned a PhD at University College London for research investigating single molecule spintronics.[1] The research was supervised by Cyrus Hirjibehedin and was awarded the Marshall Stoneham prize.[2][3]

Career

Warner was a postdoctoral research fellow in quantum physics at the centre for nanotechnology at University College London.[4][5][6] He left to join ASI Data Science (now Faculty),[7] a company founded by his brother Marc Warner in 2014, where he is now a commercial principal.[2][8]

Warner was a key figure in the computer modelling used by Vote Leave's successful 2016 referendum campaign.[9] He was brought in by Dominic Cummings to run the Conservative Party's private computer model for the 2019 general election, which predicted that the Conservative Party would win 364 seats (they won 365).[9][10]

Warner served as one of the 23 participants of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Dominic Cummings.[11]

References
  1. Warner, Ben (2014). Engineering the properties of magnetic molecules through the interaction with the surface. ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London (University of London). OCLC 926984540. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.634646. open access
  2. "Dr Ben Warner, Commercial Principal, ASI Data Science". thezebraproject.co. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  3. "Hirjibehedin What's New". ucl.ac.uk. London Centre for Nanotechnology Research Groups. 17 December 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  4. Warner, Ben; El Hallak, Fadi; Atodiresei, Nicolae; Seibt, Philipp; Prüser, Henning; Caciuc, Vasile; Waters, Michael; Fisher, Andrew J.; Blügel, Stefan; van Slageren, Joris; Hirjibehedin, Cyrus F. (2016). "Sub-molecular modulation of a 4f driven Kondo resonance by surface-induced asymmetry". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 12785. arXiv:1609.08202. Bibcode:2016NatCo...712785W. doi:10.1038/ncomms12785. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 5052670. PMID 27666413.
  5. Warner, Ben; El Hallak, Fadi; Prüser, Henning; Ajibade, Afolabi; Gill, Tobias G.; Fisher, Andrew J.; Persson, Mats; Hirjibehedin, Cyrus F. (2017). "Controlling electronic access to the spin excitations of a single molecule in a tunnel junction". Nanoscale. 9 (12): 4053–4057. doi:10.1039/C6NR06469H. ISSN 2040-3364. PMID 28282100.
  6. Warner, Ben; Gill, Tobias G.; Caciuc, Vasile; Atodiresei, Nicolae; Fleurence, Antoine; Yoshida, Yasuo; Hasegawa, Yukio; Blügel, Stefan; Yamada-Takamura, Yukiko; Hirjibehedin, Cyrus F. (2017). "Guided Molecular Assembly on a Locally Reactive 2D Material". Advanced Materials. 29 (43): 1703929. Bibcode:2017AdM....2903929W. doi:10.1002/adma.201703929. ISSN 0935-9648. PMID 29024122.
  7. Evans, Rob; Pegg, David (4 May 2020). "Vote Leave AI firm wins seven government contracts in 18 months". The Guardian.
  8. Carrell, Severin (24 April 2020). "Revealed: Cummings is on secret scientific advisory group for Covid-19". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  9. Shipman, Tim (2019). "Leave campaign's data geek joins No 10". thetimes.co.uk. The Sunday Times. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  10. Gallardo, Cristina (2019). "POLITICO Sunday Crunch, presented by BP: Whitehall shake-up — No to EU alignment — Labour war". politico.eu. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  11. Sample, Ian (24 April 2020). "Who's who on secret scientific group advising UK government?". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
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