Joonas Mikael VättöBeijing (39.90° N, 116.41° E)Zürich (47.38° N, 8.54° E)
Portrait of Joonas Mikael Vättö

Hi, I’m Joonas!

about

I spent my youth by a lake, drifted by a river, got my doctorate by the sea, and now find myself by a lotus pond.

Wherever the water, I’ve been drawn to how complex systems work from the inside.

current
I’m a postdoc at Tsinghua University, working on mathematical physics and AI: mechanistic interpretability, multi-agent dynamics, and the epistemology of AI-driven science.
previous
I studied in Zürich, Boston, and Helsinki, was a PIBBSS and Iliad fellow in AI safety, and co-edited the Harvard Review of Philosophy.