Tania Simoncelli

Who is Tania Simoncelli?

Tania Simoncelli is Assistant Director for Forensic Sciences within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is a scientist, writer, speaker, and was formerly Science Advisor at the Technology and Liberty Project of the American Civil Liberties Union, and vice chair of the Council for Responsible Genetics. She has published a number of articles on the social implications of DNA databases in at least one peer-reviewed journal. 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.

In December 2013 she was selected as one of "Ten people who mattered this year" by the scientific journal Nature.

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.