Georgia Lagoudas, PhD

I am a Senior Fellow at the Brown University Pandemic Center and a member of the faculty at the Brown School of Public Health. I lead a Clean Indoor Air Initiative to reduce disease transmission indoors and make our buildings healthier. I work at the intersection of science, policy, and public health and coordinate with state and federal leaders to advance policies and actions to help us breathe easier. I’m trained as a professional communicator and mediator and have served in policy roles in both the Congressional and Executive Branches.

Previously, I served as Senior Advisor for Biotechnology and Bioeconomy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In this role, I helped lead the drafting and implementation of an Executive Order on Advancing the American Bioeconomy, an effort to generate new jobs, expand domestic supply chains, and enhance our ability to manufacture products with the tools of biotechnology. I also launched a White House Clean Indoor Air Initiative to reduce respiratory disease transmisison, in collaboration with the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

I was previously a AAAS Congressional Science and Engineering Policy Fellow working in Washington, D.C. as part of Senator Markey’s team on energy and the environment. Before that, I 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 reliance on antibiotics for growth promotion in animals.

I completed my Ph.D. 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.