Bio

Vincent Straub is a researcher, artist, and public communicator. He is based at the University of Oxford, where his research spans the field of population health, with a focus on reproductive and mental health, and the topic of data and AI governance. Vincent is also a Research Fellow for the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys and regularly writes for various public outlets. He is an advocate for more participatory approaches and an ethics of care, which he explores in his multimedia artistic practice. He has exhibited in Tate Modern, published in Nature journals, and been featured by the BBC.

Longer biography
Vincent Straub is a researcher, artist, and public communicator working at the intersection of health, technology, and culture. His primary research work focuses on population health, with a focus reproductive health and health risk behaviours, alongside participatory governance and technology ethics. In both his research and creative practice, Vincent advocates for more participatory governance, an ethics of care, and healthier, more nurturing masculinities.

Vincent first studied international development at King’s College London, alongside gaining work experience in policy and cultural foundations in Singapore and London, before completing a master’s degree in social data science at the Oxford Internet Institute, whilst developing an independent artistic practice along the way. He later briefly pursued additional studies in design and computation at the Berlin University of the Arts, and worked for the Leibniz and Alan Turing institutes, before returning to Oxford to study for a PhD and combine his scientific, policy and artistic interests.

Vincent is currently a UKRI Horizon Europea Guaranteee MSCA Doctoral Fellow in the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford and, since 2024, a Research Scholar for Our Future Health, the UK’s largest-ever health research programme. He is contributing to a number of projects that aim to realise its potential for advancing population-scale health research. His primary doctoral research combines social epidemiology, genomics, and computational social science to examine the relationship between the genetics and gendered nature of health risk behaviours and their influence on mental and reproductive health outcomes. In 2025, he became an inaugural Research Fellow for the Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys. His academic work has been published in journals including Nature Aging, Nature Reviews Urology and Nature Genetics, while his public writing has appeared in newspapers including The Guardian and the Financial Times. He has been interviewed by outlets including the BBC, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Financial Times, and others.

As a practising multimedia artist, Vincent exhibited his first work in 2016 as part of What is the future of art?, a group exhibition in Tate Modern organised by Tate Collective. He has since exhibited work in group exhibitions in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum with the Blikopeners art collective, alongside spaces in Oxford, Brussels, and Berlin, among others. His practice combines personal expression with critical documentation and playful exploration, traversing themes including love, grief, isolation, and connection. Informed by an ethics of care and at times involving participatory or site-specific elements, his practice spans video, photography, drawing and installation. Ongoing projects include Prototyping a Plural Archive of Care, a collaborative initiative bringing together health research, artistic practice, and community engagement. His videos, photography and poetry have been featured by the Oxford University Poetry Society, the Mays Anthology, the BBC, and Aeon.

Committed to international collaboration, Vincent has contributed to projects by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (nesta) in the UK, the European Forum Alpbach in Austria, the Jubel European Democracy Festival in Belgium, and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University in the US, among others. Beyond his academic training, he has participated in several extracurricular seminars that have informed his approach to communication and engagement, including by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

Vincent lives in Oxford and works between Oxford, London, and Berlin.