Jon Arizti Sans

Schmidt Science Fellow, Stanford University
EBRC Security WG Liaison

Jon Arizti Sanz is a Schmidt Science Fellow in the Hill-Maini Lab at Stanford University. His research work at Stanford involves engineering fungi to transform agricultural and food waste into high-value products, such as protein-rich foods, fertilizers and sustainable materials. Jon got his PhD in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics from MIT and Harvard Medical School, where he developed genomic technologies for rapid and decentralized pathogen detection under Prof. Pardis Sabeti’s supervision. He’s interested in biosecurity, emerging technology regulation and the nexus of synthetic biology and security. Jon is originally from Spain.