ST Global | Organizing Committee Members

The ST Global Committee

AAAS

Philip Chalker works for the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Congress where he covers patent reform, education, the biological sciences, and energy policy. Before AAAS, he worked for United States Geologic Survey as a Desert Tortoise Biologist. There he compared stress levels of translocated tortoises with those of resident tortoise populations and performed a wildlife detector dogs study. Prior to that, he interned at The Wilderness Society. Phillip holds a B.S. in Operations Management from the University of Maryland.

Arizona State University, CSPO

Shannon Shannon Lidberg is a second year PhD student in the Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology program in the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University. Through this program she is conducting a comparative study to explore how some national design policies are leveraging design to gain economic competitiveness and how design is being linked with other innovation-based enterprises such as engineering or scientific research. She received a BA in Furniture Design from the University of Central Lancashire in 2000 and a Masters of Science in Design from Arizona State University in May of 2008. Shannon is also a Graduate Research Associate with the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at ASU.

horner Robert Horner is a second-year M.S. student at the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University. His research is primarily focused on risk and uncertainty at the nexus of science, technology, and policy--particularly in the area of civilian nuclear power. He has also examined actor networks and barriers to diffusion with renewable energy technologies.

École des Mines Paris

Benjamin Lemoine is a PhD candidate in sociology at Ecole des Mines, Paris, where he does research on the management and evalutation of public Budget. He received a Master in Political Science from Dauphine University.

Francesca Musiani is a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Sociology of Innovation, Mines ParisTech in Paris, France. Her thesis research focuses on the processes of social construction of the Internet governance realm, and in particular, explores features and implications of alternative uses of peer-to-peer technology. Francesca is also a member of the Vox Internet II research network, and maintains collaborations with the University of Padova, her first alma mater. She holds a MA degree in International Law from the United Nations-mandated University for Peace; her final study at UPEACE has recently been turned into a book, published by EuroEditions.

George Mason University

Jinnee Yu Jin (Jinnee) Jung is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Science and Technology Policy of the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. After receiving her MPP from SPP, GMU in 2007 and MPA from Seoul National University, South Korea in 2004, she worked at Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) as well as the Center for Science, Technology, and Economic Development in the SRI International as an intern. Her area of interest is innovation and its role in regional economic growth.

Dana Dolan is a 2nd year Ph.D. student at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University. She has over 20 years of experience in software development and technology adoption research, focusing on web-based collaboration tools in particular, spanning government, commercial, and non-profit environments. Dana earned her Masters of Information Systems from GMU, and Bachelor of Science in Math/Business with a CS minor from Wake Forest University. Her research interests include how new media can be used to enhance civic participation and engagement in science-based policy issues such as global climate change. More recently she is nurturing an expanding interest in long-term governance and futures studies.

George Washington University

Anwar Anwar Aridi is a first-year student in the International Science and Technology Policy program at the Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. His concentration is in science, technology and economic development in developing countries with interests in entrepreneurship, national innovation systems and technology transfer and diffusion. Anwar received a Master’s degree in Communication Technology and Policy with a concentration on policy from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. He also has a Computer Science degree from the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. He previously worked in the education technology area in Amman, Jordan and in Beirut, Lebanon.

Georgetown University

Yixian Li

Rebecca Jakob

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Tom Tom Bridge is an MA candidate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Science & Technology Studies. His undergraduate degree is from Denison University in Political Science and Music. His research includes Online Communities and the History of ICTs. He lives in Arlington, Virginia, where he manages an IT Practice, and edits a weblog about Washington DC.

Merc Fox is an STS Policy student at Virginia Tech, and staffs the Office on Central Europe and Eurasia at The National Academies.