EIRINI MALLIARAKI
ABOUT
eirinimalliaraki@gmail.com
Twitter, Linkedin, Substack
Technologist, researcher, and former founder. I build tools, programmes, and infrastructure at the intersection of AI, frontier science, and public-good innovation. I trained as a design engineer at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. Before that, a BSc in Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Three preoccupations have shaped the past decade: how intelligence emerges and travels across minds, machines, and ecosystems; what infrastructure a field needs to translate knowledge into action; and what it means to build systems that regenerate rather than extract. I've pursued all three — across startups, research labs, national AI institutes, and philanthropy.
I’m based in London, and my email is always open to ethersamplers, epistemic humorists, and ungoogleable souls.
Other curiosities: Complex systems & memetic engineering · Extended cognition · Theorising entanglement · Radical social futures · New learning environments · Community praxis · The Arctic · Soulmaking Dharma · Planetarity · Post-human design · Collective imagination · The surreal · Science Roadmapping
CV
SELECTED WORK
PROGRAMME DESIGN
RENAISSANCE PHILANTHROPY
2025
Designing grantmaking programmes and R&D portfolios for funders operating at the edge of the possible. Currently building the UK's first philanthropic infrastructure for AI for Science datasets, an ARPA-style programme on catastrophic climate risk and advising ARIA on translation strategy
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AI FOR SCIENCE, CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT @ ALAN TURING INSTITUTE
2019-21
Helped build the AI for Climate programme. Convened a 400-member community across industry, academia and government in partnership with the UK Met Office, WWF, Microsoft, MoD and UN agencies.
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AI IN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE @ UNHCR INNOVATION SERVICE
2022
Produced the technical roadmap for machine learning and data science projects. Now the blueprint for 17 AI projects inside UNHCR's Data Fund.
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VENTURE SCIENCE DOCTORATE @ DEEP SCIENCE VENTURES
2024
Helped design a new fully-funded PhD programme that trains scientists to found companies, replacing publish-or-perish with a three-year arc from first-principles research to investable venture, backed by SPRIN-D and Builder's Vision.
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NESTA’S CENTRE FOR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE DESIGN
2022
Launched a superforecasting pilot on organisational risk. Co-authored publications for the Red Cross, OECD and ACM on participatory AI and collective intelligence.
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PRODUCT DESIGN
COSMO, BY FILISIA
2014
Co-founded a VC-backed hardware, software and ML company building therapeutic tools for neurodiverse learners. Raised £1M. Shipped to 35 countries, thousands of children in schools, hospitals and therapy centres.
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AI INVENTOR ELMAN @ DEEP SCIENCE VENTURES
2025
LLM platform for scientific venture development. 300+ scientists. 15+ companies launched across climate, agriculture, therapeutics and computing. Idea-to-venture cycles compressed from weeks to days.
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AI FOR HEALTH @ MICROSOFT RESEARCH
2018
Prototyped interactive RL systems for healthcare at Microsoft Research Cambridge, across the Human Experience & Design and Healthcare Machine Learning groups.
STRATEGY FOR CLAY, OPEN SOURCE EARTH FOUNDATION MODEL
2024
Strategy for open-sourcing the leading geospatial foundation model, making Earth's satellite data queryable through natural language, and democratising access to planetary intelligence.
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EXPERIMENTAL PRACTICE
ARCTIC TIME CAPSULE
2014
Planted in Ny-Ålesund, the northernmost permanent research base in the world, as an Arctic Circle Fellow in 2023. To be opened in 2055. A preservation of this specific moment of knowing, before the maps change completely.
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VERDELISE
2017
A circular economy plan to anaerobically digest food waste from Chilean copper mines into liquid fertiliser, closing a loop between industrial extraction and local agriculture in the Atacama desert, Chile.
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AUGMENTED NATURE
2018
Speculative robotic tools that augment the capacities of endangered ecosystem engineer species like humpback whales and peccaries to help them adapt to mass extinction.
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FLOATING LAB
2017
A repurposed boat travelling the Thames, running design, engineering and arts workshops to bring children closer to river ecology and water safety.
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SOCIAL DRONES
2016
Designing an interaction vocabulary between humans and flying robots — drones that read human emotion and translate it into interpretable aerial motion, building public trust in autonomous systems. Best Video, Human-Robot Interaction Conference 2018. Featured in Wired, Fast CoDesign, Engadget, Deutsche Welle
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WRITING AND SYNTHESIS
I write about science, institutions, and ideas. Published work includes analysis for the OECD on AI and the productivity of science, technology foresight for the European Commission, participatory AI frameworks for the Red Cross, the first empirical analysis of the open-source software ecosystem in climate technology.
At my blog Ethersampler, I write more freely — field dispatches from a biosemiotics residency in the Amazon rainforest, notes on conferences, essays on embodied knowledge, analysis of AI and scientific infrastructure, and occasional forays into meditation, risk, knowledge, and what it means to live through a civilisational transition in real time.