Research Coordinator for the Crisis Dynamics Program, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Analyst for the Center for Technology and National Security Policy at the National Defense University
John Crowley explores the policy and technology interface between the formal humanitarian system and emerging technology communities like OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi, with the aim of improving coordination between actors in the humanitarian system. As a researcher at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, John was the lead author of the 2011 Disaster Response 2.0 study for the United Nations Office f...
Adjunct Professor, Education Spector, Federal University of Parana, Brazil
As a student of Social Anthropology, I took an elective course on the history of industrialization. I became increasingly interested in technology and labor issues and, for a long time, I had been an anthropologist researching factories' shop floors. I moved to Brazil to carry out graduate studies on these issues. My master dissertation research was on the effects of automation on labor skills, an...
Dr. Todd Kuiken is a Senior Program Associate with the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars where he explores the scientific and technological frontier, stimulating discovery and bringing new tools to bear on public policy challenges that emerge as science advances. He currently is collaborating with DIYbio.org on a project to ensur...
Formerly European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Technological Development, Directorate on Science, Economy and Society
Eleonore Pauwels is a public policy scholar with the Science and Technology Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her primary focus is a comparative and critical analysis of the EU and US approaches towards the societal governance of synthetic biology. She is also examining the challenges that new forms of biotechnology pose for political and public policy org...
David Rejeski directs the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP). The mission of STIP is to explore the scientific and technological frontier, stimulating discovery and bringing new tools to bear on public policy challenges that emerge as science advances. STIP focuses on emerging technologies and the critical choices innovation presents to public policy. Work includes synthetic bi...
Lea Shanley directs the Commons Lab within the Science and Technology Innovation Program (STIP) of Woodrow Wilson Center. You can follow our initiatives, events, videos, and publications at Commons Lab Blog and Commons Lab Facebook Page.Prior to this, Lea was a Postdoctoral Fellow on the Mapping Science Committee of the National Academy of Sciences, where she co-direc...
Diane Tucker has come to the Wilson Center to direct the Serious Games Initiative. She will both help create the Election Edition of Budget Hero and develop other serious games projects.Diane has been a game designer, producer and as well as a gesture designer and researcher. Alongside serious games, she has concentrated on employing the body and gesture to develop new forms of emotionally compell...
Vice President Northrop Grumman Technical Services
Dr. Younger's work at Los Alamos involves doing, (through computer modeling) social simulations of simple societies with the aim of understanding the onset of mass violence. Until recently, he was Director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, located at Fort Belvoir. Prior to that time, he was Senior Associate Director for for National Security at Los Alamos--responsible for assuring the sa...