Joe Roussos

Joe Roussos received his PhD in 2020 from the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He previously studied Theoretical Physics (MS) at the University of Cambridge, and Mathematics and Philosophy (BA) at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a postdoc in the Climate Ethics program at the Institute for Futures Studies, where he went on to lead the VR-funded project Expertise in Crises and the Mimir Center for Long-Term Futures Research.

Roussos’s research is about uncertainty and how it affects decision making. He has studied the use of models in climate science, how model uncertainties affect their use in policymaking, and the role of the expert as policy advisor. His work on these topics has appeared in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, and Philosophy of Science. He also produces interdisciplinary work at the intersection of philosophy, STS, and policy studies, including “Usability of Climate Information: Toward a New Scientific Framework” (2023) in WIRES Climate Change.

As a Pro Futura Fellow, Roussos will examine how scientists should represent and communicate their uncertainty in a variety of contexts. The project aims to produce a wide-ranging normative framework for scientific uncertainty representation and communication, centered on climate science.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2025-26.