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Kathleen Vogel is a Professor at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. She has served in the U.S. Department of State as a William C. Foster Fellow in the Office of Proliferation Threat Reduction in the Bureau of Nonproliferation and as a visiting scholar at Sandia National Laboratories. Vogel holds a PhD in bio-physical chemistry from Princeton University. Vogel’s overall research interests relate to the study of knowledge production on security and intelligence problems. She has particular expertise in: (1) assessing dual use research of concern; (2) state and non-state actor security threats related to developments in life science and emerging technologies; (2) how to create more holistic assessments of biosecurity threats involving different kinds of social and technical knowledge.  Her book, Phantom Menace or Looming Danger?: A New Framework for Assessing Bioweapons Threats (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) proposes a new way of analyzing security threats and identifying gaps, vulnerabilities, as well as over-hyped areas in the health security domain. She has extensive experience interfacing with a variety of U.S. officials and experts on biosecurity issues.