Georgia Lagoudas

I’m a scientist, communicator, and motivated citizen. I care about solving problems that matter and using data and logic to drive our decisions. I am currently a AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Policy Fellow working in Washington, D.C. as part of Senator Ed Markey’s team on energy and the environment.

I recently worked at DSM, a multinational company that creates products in nutrition, health, and materials. I applied my skills of project management, microbial sequencing, and microbiome analysis to help create products that can improve animal gut health. Our goal was to reduce the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals.

I completed my Ph.D. in 2018 in Paul Blainey’s lab at MIT and the Broad Institute. I built microfluidic technologies to analyze microbial genomes, and I used DNA sequencing to study antibiotic resistance. I have experience in genomic sequencing, microfluidics, microbiology, and bioinformatics.

I have 5+ years of coaching and mentoring students, and I served as a Communication Fellow at MIT.