Steph Batalis

Steph Batalis is a research fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where she leads biotechnology research. Her work examines a number of issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the life sciences, including how emerging technologies will impact both biomedical innovation and U.S. biosecurity. Before joining CSET, Batalis was the STEM policy fellow at the North Carolina Biotechnology Center where she focused on economic and workforce development initiatives in North Carolina’s life sciences ecosystem. She holds a Ph.D. in biochemistry and molecular biology with a focus in structural and computational biophysics from Wake Forest University’s School of Medicine, and a B.A. in molecular and cellular biology from Vanderbilt University.