Applicants

Robert Mikulak

Ambassador (ret) Robert P. Mikulak is an independent expert on chemical and biological security issues. Until mid-December 2025, he served as an expert on these issues at the United States […]

Allen Liu

Allen Liu received a B.Sc. degree in Biochemistry (Honors) from the University of British Columbia in 2001. He obtained his Ph.D. in Biophysics in 2007 from the University of California-Berkeley […]

Alejandro Vallejo

I am a biotechnologist and biosecurity specialist with active research and policy engagement at the intersection of synthetic biology, public health, and regulatory governance. My work combines molecular biology, genomics, […]

Rennos Fragkoudis

Rennos Fragkoudis completed his PhD on molecular virology and viral pathogenesis at the University of Edinburgh and for ~15 years he concentrated his research on the pathogenesis of arthropod-borne viruses […]

Susan Rosser

Susan is Professor of Synthetic Biology and Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Chair in Emerging Technologies at the University of Edinburgh. She was Director of the UK Centre for Mammalian […]

Seung Hwan Lee

Seung Hwan “Allen” Lee is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Ray D. & Mary T. Johnson/Mayon Plastics Professor at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. […]

Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro

Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro is a Professor at Imperial College London, where he leads a research group working on Engineering Biology and sustainability. He is the director of the Bezos Centre for […]

Mark Bathe

Mark Bathe is a Professor in the Department of Biological Engineering at MIT, a Member of the Harvard Medical School Initiative for RNA Medicine, and an Associate Member of the […]

Rixin Zhang

Tackle resource competition problems in synthetic biology, aiming to restore gene circuits’ modularity and build robust gene circuits.

sadikshya rijal

Sadikshya Rijal is pursuing her PhD in biological design from Arizona State University. She is affiliated with Dr. Xiaojun Tian’s lab, which focuses on resource allocation of gene circuits and […]

Bojing Jiang

Bojing Jiang is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, with a focus on developing protein-based materials for biomedical and environmental applications. Her research integrates […]

Sana Zakaria

Sana Zakaria is a Research Leader, and a Global RAND Scholar working emerging technologies and their intersection. Her work focusses on assessing the societal and biosecurity implications of technological advancement, […]

Chris Vaiana

Jaya Joshi

Jaya Joshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Wood Science, Bioproducts, and Bioengineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research walks through enzyme design […]

Luis Joel Figueroa-Yáñez

PhD. Luis Joel Figueroa-Yáñez is Researcher class A, repatriated, belongs to the National System of Researchers (Level I), assigned to the Center for Research and Assistance in Technology and Design […]

Priyanka Nain

I am Priyanka Nain, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. Here, my research revolves around finding innovative solutions […]

Sarah Hartley

Technology governance is concerned with the decisions that shape how technology is funded, developed, regulated, tested, and deployed – it determines technology trajectories. My social science research takes a critical […]

Willy A. Valdivia-Granda

I am the founder of Orion Integrated Biosciences. I lead a group of researchers developing new techniques to decode microbes’ genomic information and map short DNA fragments to their source […]

Alexander Refsnes Andrassy

Research in cell culture models and synthetic biology innovations

Tiara Rahayu

Tiara is Biotechnology enthusiast. Loving the world with collaboration in science, content creator, leadership in community, moderator event, and science communicator. My interests are about Biomedical informatics, genetic for disease, […]