Markus leads research at GovAI with a focus on how governments, AI companies, and other stakeholders can manage a transition to a world with advanced AI. He is currently serving as one of the Vice-Chairs drafting the EU's Code of Practice for General Purpose AI, and was previously seconded to the UK Cabinet Office as a Senior AI Policy Specialist, advising on the UK's regulatory approach to AI. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for a New American Security and a member of the OECD AI Policy Observatory's Expert Group on AI Futures. His research has been published in leading journals including Science and Nature Machine Intelligence, and presented to, for example, the Brookings Institution and Bipartisan Policy Center.