16. Bioengineering Horizon Scan 2020

Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh is the Programme Director of AI: Futures and Responsibility at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence.

Clarissa Rios Rojas is a Political Affairs Officer at UN Office for Disarmament Affairs.

Catherine Rhodes is the Head of Operations and Engagement (SPRITE+), University of Manchester.

Lalitha S. Sundaram is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk who works in the area of bio-risk, with a particular emphasis on regulation and governance. She investigates risks—real or perceived—surrounding emerging biotechnologies such as synthetic biology and their convergence with artificial intelligence. Before joining CSER, Lalitha worked within the University of Cambridge and Edinburgh’s Arsenic Biosensor Collaboration where she developed strategy to take this novel synthetic biology product from bench to field, focusing regulation and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). Following this, she held a fellowship at King’s College London investigating the opportunities and challenges facing emerging biotechnologies seeking to tackle global health challenges. Lalitha’s PhD research, also at the University of Cambridge, used a combination of bioinformatic, next-generation sequencing and molecular biology tools to explore host-cell metabolic and microRNA changes following infection by the pathogenic parasite Toxoplasma gondii.

Bonnie C. Wintle is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, University of Melbourne.

William J. Sutherland is the Director of Research at the University of Cambridge Department of Zoology.