Global Security Initiative
Scroll through our list of media-ready experts based out of or affiliated with the Biodesign Institute. Click on their name to learn more about their unique expertise, recent media coverage and how to connect with them.

Matthew Scotch
Expert in: Global health, Health information technology, Informatics, Information systems, Public health, Viruses, Coronavirus, Big data, Data security

Everett Shock
Biodesign Institute, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Biodesign Center for Fundamental & Applied Microbiomics, School of Molecular Sciences, School of Life Sciences
Expert in: Biogeochemistry, Geology, Environmental geochemistry


Neal Woodbury
Biodesign Institute, School of Molecular Sciences, Knowledge Enterprise, School of Life Sciences, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics
Expert in: Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biophysics


Michael Lynch
Expert in: Genetics, Evolution, Cell biology, Biological systems

Bruce Rittmann
Biodesign Institute, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Expert in: Environmental chemistry, Microbiology, Engineering





Cheryl Nickerson
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Center for Immunotherapy, Vaccines and Virotherapy
Expert in: Microbiology, Bacteria, Drugs and therapeutics


Ferran Garcia-Pichel
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Center for Fundamental & Applied Microbiomics
Expert in: Microbiology, Evolution, Theoretical evolutionary biology, Climate change

Diego Mastroeni
Expert in: Neuroscience, Alzheimer’s disease, Cell biology, Drugs and therapeutics, CTE

Carlo Maley
Biodesign Institute, School of Life Sciences, Biodesign Center for Biocomputing, Security and Society
Expert in: Cancer, Cancer evolution, Computation, Drugs and therapeutics

Karen Anderson
Expert in: Cancer, Immunology, Diagnostics, Drugs and therapeutics, Breast cancer, Immunotherapy

Rolf Halden
Biodesign Institute, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment
Expert in: Coronavirus, Public health, Environmental chemistry, Biological treatment processes, Engineering

Lara A. Ferry
New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Biodesign Institute, Global Security Initiative, Barrett, The Honors College
Expert in: Biology, Evolution, Biodiversity