Cristian is an interdisciplinary academic whose interests span analytic philosophy, ethics, cognitive science, neuro-aesthetics and music psychology. He has a BPhil from Oxford, an MSc from Goldsmiths, and a PhD from Cambridge, where he was an Isaac Newton Trinity scholar. Before joining LIS in 2025, Cristian taught philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London. At present, he is working on several research projects, including: the relationship between climate scepticism and conspiratorial thinking on social media; the way AI processes foreign accents; the role of counterfactual thinking in interdisciplinary integration; computational models of musical similarity.