6th EMBO/EMBL Conference on Science and Society
Science and Security

Ross Anderson Chair, Foundation for Information Policy Research, and Professor, University of Cambridge, UK

Ross Anderson is Professor of Security Engineering at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He was one of the pioneers of peer-topeer systems, of micropayments, of information hiding systems, of API attacks on cryptographic processors, and of the study of hardware tamperresistance. He has also written extensively on security failure, and has analysed attacks on systems ranging from bank cash machines through medical record databases to tachographs.

He became involved in policy issues during the “crypto war”' of the 1990s, when governments tried first to ban cryptography, and then to regulate it. Later, when the UK government proposed to extend export controls on dualuse technologies from physical equipment to information, which meant that many scientific exchanges with colleagues overseas would be subject to licensing, he led a campaign that successfully amended the Export Control Act to exempt scientific researchers from most of the new controls.

Recently he was one of the founders of the study of information security economics, and he also chairs the Foundation for Information Policy Research.

Christophe Champod Professor, School of Criminal Sciences, Institute of Forensic Science, University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Christophe Champod received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in Forensic Science from the University of Lausanne, in 1990 and 1995 respectively. He then remained in academia, reaching the position of assistant professor in forensic science. From 1999 to 2003, he led the Interpretation Research Group of the Forensic Science Service (UK), before taking a professorship position at the School of Criminal Sciences (ESC) / Institute of Forensic Science (IPS) of the University of Lausanne. He is in charge of education and research on identification methods (detection and identification), and is member of the International Association for Identification. In 2004 he was elected a member of the FBI-sponsored SWGFAST. Christophe Champod’s research is devoted to the statistical evaluation of forensic identification techniques, the value of fingerprint evidence being his core interest.

Filippa Corneliussen Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BiOS Center, London School of Economics, UK

Dr Filippa Corneliussen is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society (BiOS) of the London School of Economics. Before joining BiOS, she completed a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the LSE Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation and a one-year visiting fellowship at the Centre for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley.

Her research interests broadly focus on the social, political and economic impacts of developments in the life sciences and biomedicine, and the oversight mechanisms put in place to deal with these. Currently, she is working on a Wellcome Trust funded research project entitled “Social and Ethical Aspects of Governing Dual-Use Biomedical R&D”.

As part of this project, Dr Corneliussen is looking at regulatory measures aimed at preventing the techniques and knowledge generated through biomedical work with biological agents from being misused, and exploring what impact these measures have on the biotech industry. In investigating the ground-level impact of dual-use regulatory measures, she is drawing primarily on a number of semi-structured interviews with researchers and managers in US- and UK-based firms.

One regulatory measure finding particular currency at the present time is some form of a code of conduct or a code of practice. In her work, Dr Corneliussen is exploring what impact codes of this nature have on biotech firms and assessing how effective such codes would be in preventing the misuse of biological knowledge.

Henning Daum Head, Demonstration center and Evaluation lab for Biometrics, Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Darmstadt, Germany

After receiving his degree in information technology from the Technical University, Darmstadt, in 2000 Henning Daum became a staff member in the Department of Security Technology at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, where he had been working as student researcher since 1996.

As head of the biometrics group, he is the coordinator of the project series BioIS, BioFace and BioFinger. These projects are being carried out on behalf of the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), and deal mostly with the testing and evaluation of biometric methods in general, and performance measures and security issues in particular.

Henning Daum is head of the demonstration center and the evaluation lab for biometrics at the Fraunhofer-IGD, and from 2001 he has held a lectureship at the Technical University, Darmstadt, in the area of biometrics.

Robert Dingwall Professor and Director, Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society, University of Nottingham, UK

Robert Dingwall is Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks and Society at the University of Nottingham. He received a PhD in medical sociology from the University of Aberdeen in 1974 and has worked at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford and, as a visitor, at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, before moving to Nottingham in 1990. Within the law and society field, he has carried out research on agency decision-making in child
abuse and neglect, medical negligence and asbestos disease litigation, the legal profession, and divorce mediation, funded by various UK foundations and government agencies. Since 1997, he has been directing a research and graduate centre for the study of the social and legal implications of biological science and technology, including the new genetics.

His own work within this team has included projects on bioethics and the governance of science, on representations of the Human Genome Project, and on the presentation of evolution in popular TV wildlife programming. He is currently leading projects on the incorporation of genetic medicine into the UK National Health Service, and on the implications for public health early warning systems of national responses to the August 2003 heatwave in France and the UK. He is now developing new studies on the social implications of developments in neuroscience.

Jeanne Guillemin Professor, MIT Security Studies Program, and Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA

Jeanne Guillemin is a senior fellow at the Security Studies Program, MIT, and also a professor of sociology at Boston College. She has published widely on medical technology and biological weapons issues. She has been a US Congressional Fellow, working with the Senate Finance Committee, as well as a fellow at the Dibner Institute at MIT, and is currently an associate of the Harvard Sussex Program for the study of chemical and biological weapons policy. In the aftermath of the 2001 anthrax postal attacks, she appeared frequently on television and radio and continues to consult for the national media.
Her book “Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak” (University of California Press) was published in 1999. It documents her participation in solving the question of the source of history's largest recorded epidemic of inhalational anthrax, which happened in 1979 in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk. Her epidemiological research led to the discovery that an accidental release of spores from a local military facility caused the outbreak. Professor Guillemin's most recent book, “Biological Weapons: From the Invention of State-sponsored Programs to Contemporary Bioterrorism” (Columbia University Press), appeared earlier this year.

Richard Guthrie Project Leader, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden

Richard Guthrie (United Kingdom) is the Leader of the SIPRI Chemical and Biological Warfare Project and editor of the SIPRI Chemical & Biological Warfare Studies series (commonly known as the "Scorpion volumes"). Before joining SIPRI he was an independent consultant dealing with defence and security issues with a specialization in the control of materials and technologies used to make nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) weapons. He has worked extensively with inter-governmental bodies, governments, NGOs and academic units. His current research work at SIPRI includes: a compilation from open sources of a detailed chronology of events relating to Iraq and CBW, to be published as Scorpion volumes; examining what might be done to promote a positive outcome from the 2006 Review Conference for the Biological Weapons Convention; investigating means and methods to reduce vulnerabilities in civil society to pathogens and toxic materials; and studying lessons that may be learned for enhancing security of pathogens and toxic materials from measures designed for health & safety or environmental purposes.
Richard has interests in emergency management in the voluntary sector and has been a fully-qualified member of the University of Sussex Rescue Team which provides fire rescue, first aid and chemical spill services on the university campus and was a founder member of Wiltshire Search and Rescue. He qualified as a Search Manager with the Mountain Rescue Council of England and Wales in 2001.

Brigitte Kofod Olsen Head, Danish Institute for Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark

An expert in human rights, Birgitte Kofod Olsen’s research area also includes privacy protection in the information society, and the interplay between privacy and prevention of terrorism.

After obtaining a BA and a PhD at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, she joined the Danish Center for Human Rights in Copenhagen, where she was first a junior and then a senior researcher from 1994 to 2002. She is currently the Director of the National Department of the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and an external senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

She is member of several professional bodies, among others of the Committee of Jurisdiction of the Danish Ministry of Justice, and the Editorial Committee, Review on EU-Law and Human Rights in Copenhagen.

She participates in numerous networks, such the European group of National Human Rights Institutions, the EU Network of Independent Experts on Fundamental Rights, the International Coordination Committee for National Human Rights Institutions, and the European Migration Dialogue, Brussels.

Andrew Marshall Editor, Nature Biotechnology, USA

Andrew Marshall has been Editor of Nature Biotechnology since 2000. As well as frequently speaking on biotechnology issues at international meetings, he also regularly organizes conferences and symposia for the Nature Publishing Group on biotechnology. He has over 12 years of experience in scientific publishing, and was previously Editor of Current Opinion in Biotechnology from 1992 to 1996. He has written over 100 articles and editorials on science and technology for the popular media, including The Economist and Popular Science, and for trade publications. In January 2003, he launched Bioentrepreneur (www.nature.com/bioent), a free-access web portal that provides practical information and advice on the challenges of starting a biotechnology company. He obtained his PhD and postdoctoral experience in molecular biology and microbiology at King’s College London and was the recipient of the Helen White Prize.

Meryem Marzouki Senior Researcher, LIP6/PolyTIC-CNRS, and President, IRIS-Imaginons un Réseau Internet Solidaire, France

Meryem Marzouki is a senior researcher with the French National Public Research Center (CNRS), currently with the Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6 (LIP6). Dealing with relationships between ICTs, public policies and the public space following a multi-disciplinary approach, her current research interests include Internet governance and the transformation of the rule of law, privacy and personal data protection issues and communication usages in a mobile campus. Meryem Marzouki is the author of several publications and talks on Internet governance, human rights and democracy, as part of both her scientific and NGO activities (human rights and fundamental freedoms in the information society). She holds a PhD in Computer Science and an Habilitation à diriger des recherches, both from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France (INPG). Prior to switching to her current research field in 2002, she has conducted extensive research in Computer Science and Microelectronics, dealing with Test and Diagnosis of Heterogeneous Systems. Meryem Marzouki is the President of the French NGO IRIS (Imaginons un réseau Internet solidaire) and has co-chaired the Civil Society Human Rights Caucus at the World Summit on the Information Society.

Simone Scholze UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector, Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, Paris, France

Simone Scholze is Brazilian by birth, and a lawyer by training, with postgraduation in Law. She is a member of the Brazilian National Order of Science Merit and former Member of the Brazilian Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio). Among her studies and publications on the legal and ethical impact of science and technology, intellectual property rights, biosafety, acess to biodiversity and politics of science and technology, she has also published the book “Patents, Transgenics and Cloning – legal and bioethics implications”. She is a legal and policy counselor assisting the Minister of Science and Technology of Brazil in issues related to legal and ethical aspects of S&T, mainly modern biotechnology, such as intellectual property rights, traditional knowledge protection, GMOs biosafety, sustainable use of biodiversity, bioethics information and communication technologies (ICTs), transfer of technologies as well as incentive laws to S&T and technological innovation.

She participated as Brazilian delegate in several international negotiations related to science and technology, in many multilateral contexts such as at WTO, WIPO, UNEP, UNIDO, UNESCO and MERCOSUL, as well as at bilateral level, with the USA, the European Union and with Latin American institutions in the field of international cooperation in science and technology and intellectual property rights. She joined UNESCO in March 2003 as Program Specialist at the Division of Ethics of Science and Technology.

Jonathan B. Tucker Senior Researcher, Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, Washington, USA

Jonathan B. Tucker, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow specializing in biological and chemical weapons and biosecurity issues in the Washington, D.C. office of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Dr. Tucker is the author of “Scourge: The Once and Future Threat of Smallpox”(Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001) and “War of Nerves”, a book on the history of chemical weapons that will be published by Pantheon Books in early 2006. He also edited “Toxic Terror: Assessing Terrorist Use of Chemical and Biological Weapons” (MIT Press, 2000).
Prior to joining CNS in March 1996, Dr. Tucker served for six years with the U.S. government, including positions at the Department of State, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was a member of the U.S. delegation to the Chemical Weapons Convention preparatory commission in The Hague and served on a UN biological weapons inspection team in Iraq in February 1995.
Dr. Tucker earned a B.S. in biology from Yale University and a Ph.D. in political science with a concentration in defense and arms control studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received fellowships from the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the United States Institute of Peace. In spring 2004, he was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Karsten Weber Research Scientist, Department of Philosophy, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany

Karsten Weber’s research is focussed on the interaction of individuals with society, and on technology, in particular information and communication technology (ICT). In the project "Mobile Internet Services and Privacy" he is currently investigating how mobile ICT affects the attitudes of users with regard to privacy, and how public space is altered by technologies like Ubiquitous Computing.

As well as being a member of the scientific staff of the Department of Philosophy at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, he is a speaker of the working group “Informatics and Ethics” of the German Informatics Society, director of the project „Mobile Internet Services and Privacy“ (funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)), and a member of the Young Scientists Network of the Center of Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld.

Since 2005, he has been Editor of the International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE:http://www.i-r-i-e.net), and together with Rafael Capurro, Thomas Hausmanninger and Michael Nagenborg, he is a member of the International Center for Information Ethics team (ICIE, http://zkm.icie.de). Karsten Weber was born in 1967 in Hanau, Germany. After having worked for some time as software engineer and system administrator, he studied Philosophy, Informatics, and Sociology at the University of Karlsruhe, and obtained a PhD in Philosophy at the same University in 1999.

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