Britte Bouchaut is a researcher and lecturer at Delft University of Technology. Her research interest lies in the ethics of biotechnology and chemistry, and how we can work towards safer and more sustainable industries e.g. by means of Safe-by-Design and Responsible Research and Innovation. Britte was trained as a chemical analyst (BSc.) and studied Innovation Sciences (MSc.) at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD degree (cum laude) at the Biotechnology & Society group at TU Delft, researching how we can learn what uncertain risks and uncertainties associated with emerging biotechnologies entail, in a safe and responsible way ( T-TRIPP project). Currently, she is involved in the EU H2020 WATER MINING project as a postdoctoral researcher at TU Delft.

Ernest Clawson is a crop scientist/agronomist with Bayer CropScience LP. He received a Ph.D. in agronomy from Texas A&M university, where he studied cotton responses to row spacing and nitrogen fertilizer rate. He then worked for the Louisiana State University AgCenter as an assistant professor with responsibility for applied agronomic research in cotton and soybeans. While there, his research topics included crop water use, date of planting, soil fertility and comparisons of commercial varieties. At Bayer, he conducts studies and productions required for regulatory approvals of genetically modified crops, focusing on those that characterize the plant phenotype and/or generate plant tissues needed for protein expression, composition, or toxicological studies. In this role, he has directed large field trials in maize, sugar beet, and cotton, authored reports, and contributed to other documents needed for regulatory submissions. He has published scientific articles on agronomic topics and the risk assessment of genetically modified crops.

Professor Parker earned her PhD at Stanford University in 2016, where she was supported by the Abel Wolman Fellowship (American Water Works Association), the Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship (from Stanford for excellence in teaching) and the US National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She was then awarded a Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (European Commission) to conduct research at ETH Zurich (Switzerland) prior to joining the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis as an Assistant Professor in 2018. Her research has been recognized with honors including the Paul V. Roberts/AEESP Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (2017), the NSF CAREER Award (2021), and the SETAC Expanding Chemistry Award (2022).

Matthew Pence is a regulatory manager working at Simplot Plant Sciences, part of the J.R. Simplot Company. He received his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Wake Forest University using enzymology and X-ray crystallography techniques to study DNA replication of carcinogen-modified DNA, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University before coming to work for the J.R. Simplot Company. He has worked in the biotech industry at Simplot Plant Sciences for the past 10 years as a regulatory scientist, and as regulatory manager. His contributions at Simplot include recombinant protein expression, protein assay development for risk assessment, event detection, and allergen and toxin bioinformatics screening for regulatory needs, as well as writing and submitting reports and dossiers, and working with regulators to obtain approvals for Simplot’s Innate® potato varieties at USDA, FDA, EPA, and in the Philippines. He is currently leading work on regulatory submissions at EPA and in Korea, and supporting submissions in China.