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Christine J. Kirchhoff Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. Kirchhoff is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation and Director, Law, Policy and Engineering Program.
Patricia Gruver-Barr
Patricia Gruver-Barr is the Program Administrator for COPA-STEP and Law, Policy, and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. She is a 7th generation Pennsylvanian with over a decade of experience working in science policy, having worked in science diplomacy, tech diplomacy, and tech policy in government and think tanks. She has worked on policy issues ranging from agritech to AI to marine science to quantum.
Holly Mayton Ph.D.
Holly earned her PhD in Chemical & Environmental Engineering from UC Riverside in 2018, with a focus on Public Policy. She has been a founding director of the National Science Policy Network, coordinator of the COVES Policy Fellowship, and a AAAS Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of State. She now serves as the Administrative Director of an NSF Engineering Research Center at UPenn.
Tomotaroh ‘Tomy’ Granzier-Nakajima Ph.D.
Tomotaroh received his PhD in physics at Penn State in 2021. He is now a science policy fellow covering energy and the environment at MOST.
Stefan Peterson
Stefan is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania studying microbiology in the Cellular and Molecular Biology Program
Advisory Board
Graduate Student Partners
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Allegheny Science Policy Group
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Penn Science & Policy Diplomacy Group
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Penn State Science Policy Society