Dr Kathleen Vogel

Dr Kathleen Vogel is Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University. She is from the United States of America.  

Vogel has expertise in: (1) assessing dual use research of concern; (2) state and non-state actor security threats related to developments in the life science and emerging technologies; (3) biosafety & biosecurity; and (4) health security, big data and artificial intelligence technologies.  

She is author of Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press). She has previously served as a Member on the Committee on Assessing Fundamental Attitudes of Life Scientists as a Basis for Biosecurity Education, Policy and Global Affairs Division, United States National Research Council. She is on the Editorial Board of Politics and the Life Sciences, and The Nonproliferation Review.  

She has served in the United States Department of State as a William C. Foster Fellow in the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction in the Bureau of Nonproliferation. Vogel has also spent time as a visiting scholar at Sandia National Laboratories.   

Vogel holds a PhD in bio-physical chemistry from Princeton University.