Vincent Straub/Vince Fausty's projects, installations, writing, and engagement traverses between disciplines, methods, and collaborations, avoiding a single reference point.<
BIO(PSY)
Vincent is; sometimes he is also ascribed the identities of academic, artist, poet, developer, commentator, performer, Mr Straub, Vince Fausty, or other things.
His transdisciplinary practice systematically and haphazardly attempts to question, quantify, and qualify ‘development’ across science, technology, and society.
Sometimes he conducts computational or biomedical research, builds multimedia art installations, develops new academic concepts, and comments on current affairs in newspapers. Other times he collaborates with other scientists, artists, and policymakers, supports transnational political networks, or volunteers with local community initiatives.
He has so far evaded a formal theme for his work but is fundamentally concerned with how beings, systems, concepts, and technologies interact; developing new ideas or tools to comprehend and govern their complexity; critically studying how power, behaviours, and biology intersect to affect health; and letting vulnerability, evidence, and feminist philosophies of care be a guide for personal interaction and political action.
Love, grief, and intuition also form a crucial crux for his work.
Vincent has published several peer-reviewed articles in Nature journals, authored opinion pieces in The Guardian, been interviewed by the BBC and Financial Times, taken part in group exhibitions in Tate Modern and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and published and exhibited videos, poems, and photographs and helped run participatory workshops with children and adults across Oxford, where he currently lives, works, and rests.
Vincent is a currently a PhD student at the University of Oxford.
EDUCATION / INTERFERENCE
2023-27 Doctor of Philosophy, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
2020-21 Guest student, Design & Computation, Berlin University of the Arts
2019-20 Master of Science, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
2015-18 Bachelor of Arts, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King’s College London
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2026 Straub, V.J.; Harerimana, N.V., Alajääskö, L.I.A. et al. Early-career-researcher-led best practices for social science and behavioural genetics. Nature Human Behaviour
2026 Straub, V.J. Let's talk about sex in a world of porn. The Guardian
2026 Straub, V.J., Mills, M.C. Enabling secure discovery in trusted research environments with improved tooling. Nature Medicine
2025 Straub, V.J., Mills, M.C. The interplay between male fertility, mental health and sexual function. Nature Reviews Urology 22 (1), 1-2
2025 Straub, V.J., Burton, J.W. Participatory approaches should be used to address the ethics of social media experiments. Communications Psychology 3 (1), 28
2025 Straub, V.J. Realizing the full potential of Our Future Health through data linkage and trans-biobank efforts. Nature Genetics
2025 Straub, V.J. A novel idea for men's emotional growth. The Guardian
2025 Straub, V.J. Urology Awareness Month: Shining a spotlight on urological diseases, Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys
2025 Straub, V.J. I took a fertility test for the sake of my health—here is what I learnt, Men’s Health Magazine
2025 Straub, V. J. As the government reviews UK parental leave, it must look beyond the first year, Centre for Policy Research on Men and Boys
2024 Straub, V.J. Stop digital platforms treating people as lab rats. Nature 636, 299
2024 Straub, V.J. Declining birth rates are a symptom of a male malaise, The Financial Times
2024 Straub, V. J. We need a new language to talk about AI that highlights its machine nature. Apolitical
2024 Straub, V.J., Burton, J.W.; Geers, M.; Lorenz-Spreen, P. Public attitudes towards social media field experiments. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 26110
2024 Benonisdottir, S.; Straub, V.J.; Kong, A.; Mills, M.C. Genetics of female and male reproductive traits and their relationship with health, longevity and consequences for offspring. Nature Aging 4 (12), 1745-1759
2024 Straub, V.J., Hashem, Y.; Bright, J.; et al. Task structure predicts AI automation potential across UK central government services. arXiv:2403.14712
2023 Straub, V.J., Morgan, D.; Bright, J.; Margetts, H. Artificial intelligence in government: Concepts, standards, and a unified framework. Government Information Quarterly 40 (4), 101881
2023 Straub, V.J., Morgan, D.; Hashem, Y.; Francis, J.; Esnaashari, S.; Bright, J. A multidomain relational framework to guide institutional AI research and adoption. AIES '23 proceedings
2023 Straub, V.J., Tsvetkova, M.; Yasseri, T. The cost of coordination can exceed the benefit of collaboration in performing complex tasks. Collective Intelligence 2 (2)
2021 Straub, V.J. Beyond kinetic harm and towards a dynamic conceptualization of cyberterrorism. Journal of Information Warfare 20 (3), 1-23
2020 Straub, V. J. It’s time we involve citizens in the AI revolution. Sage Methods Research Community
2019 Mulgan, G.; Straub, V.J. The new ecosystem of trust: How data trusts, collaboratives and coops can help govern data for the maximum public benefit. National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)
2019 Straub, V.J. Let's judge universities for their social impact, not graduate salaries. The Guardian
For a full list of academic publications see Google Scholar.
EXHIBITIONS
2027 White Box (solo with Deshna Shah), Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, Oxford, UK
2027 Pembroke College Art Gallery (solo), Oxford, UK
2026 Palfest (group), Fusion Arts, Oxford, UK
2026 Hold me (solo), St Edmund Hall, Oxford, UK
2026 Angles of Love, Oxford University Short Film Festival, Oxford, UK
2025 Stone ship / When life happens (solo), Dolphin Gallery, St John's College, Oxford, UK
2025 Hans/Hands/Haus (group show curated by Claudia Sacher), CROSSING. Kunstraum, Essen, Germany
2025 004 (group), Worcester College, Oxford, UK
2024 NASTYA (contributed work to solo show by Claudia Sacher), Galerie Gublia, Essen, Germany
2021 Iterations (group), Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
2020 Art against Corona (group show curated by Lily Fürstenow), e-mERGING a r t i S T S (online)
2019 The last chair: Documenting Europe (solo), Jubel European Democracy Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Welcome Exhibition (group), Bush House, London, UK
2017 ARTober (group), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Switch Festival (group), Porthmeor Studios, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
2016 What is the Future? (group), Tate Modern, London, UK
