Tania Simoncelli
Tania Simoncelli is Assistant Director for Forensic Sciences within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.[1] She is a scientist, writer, speaker, and was formerly Science Advisor at the Technology and Liberty Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),[2][3] and vice chair of the Council for Responsible Genetics (CRG).[4] She has published a number of articles on the social implications of DNA databases in at least one peer-reviewed journal.[5][6] She is also a co-author of a book on the subject of the interference by the Bush administration in academic freedom and scientific inquiry.[7]
In December 2013 she was selected as one of "Ten people who mattered this year" by the scientific journal Nature.[8]
Simoncelli received her B.A. from Cornell, majoring in biology and society. Her M.S. degree in energy and resources is from U.C. Berkeley.[9]
References
- ↑ The White House, OSTP Leadership and Staff
- ↑ "Stanford Speaker series: Tania Simoncelli"
- ↑ "Q&A with Dr. Jeremy Gunn and Tania Simoncelli", ACLU website, published 23 November 2005.
- ↑ "Council for Responsible Genetics", Board of Directors. Accessed June 2, 2009.
- ↑ "Dangerous Excursions: The Case Against Expanding Forensic DNA Databases to Innocent Persons" in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Volume 34 Issue 2, Pages 390 - 397 Published Online: 16 Jun 2006
- ↑ "California's Proposition 69: A Dangerous Precedent for Criminal DNA Databases" in The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Volume 33 Issue 2, Pages 279 - 293 Published Online: 24 Jan 2007
- ↑ Simoncelli, Tania, and Jay Stanley. Science Under Siege: The Bush Administration's Assault on Academic Freedom and Scientific Inquiry. New York, NY: American Civil Liberties Union, 2005.
- ↑ "Ten people who mattered this year.", Nature website, published 18 December 2013.
- ↑ Applied Brilliance, "Past Speakers"