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Contact Information
For further information about the Center, please contact us:
Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy
American Association for the Advancement of Science
1200 New York Avenue, NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005
Fax: (202) 289-4958
Norman P. Neureiter, PhD
Director
Norman P. Neureiter was born in Illinois and grew up near Rochester,
New York. He received a B.A. degree in chemistry from the University of
Rochester in 1952 and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Northwestern University
in 1957. He spent a year ('55-6) as a Fulbright Fellow in the Institute
of Organic Chemistry at the University of Munich.
 In
1957, he joined Humble Oil and Refining (now part of Exxon) in Baytown,
Texas as a research chemist, also teaching German and Russian at the University
of Houston. On leave from Humble in 1959, he served as a guide at the
U.S. National Exhibition in Moscow, subsequently qualifying as an escort
interpreter for the Department of State. In 1963, he joined the International
Affairs Office of the U.S. National Science Foundation in Washington and
managed the newly established U.S.-Japan Cooperative Science Program.
Entering the U.S. Foreign Service in 1965, he was named Deputy Scientific
Attache at the U.S. Embassy in Bonn. In 1967, he was transferred to Warsaw
as the first U.S. Scientific Attache in Eastern Europe with responsibility
for Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Dr. Neureiter returned to Washington in 1969 as Assistant for International
Affairs to the President's Science Advisor in the White House Office of
Science and Technology. He left the Government in 1973 and joined Texas
Instruments (TI), where he held a number of staff and management positions
including Manager, East-West Business Development; Manager, TI Europe
Division; Vice President, Corporate Staff; and Vice President of TI Asia,
resident in Tokyo from 1989-94.
After retirement from TI in 1996, he worked as a consultant until being
appointed in September 2000 as the first Science and Technology Adviser
to the U.S. Secretary of State. Finishing the 3-year assignment in 2003,
he was made a Distinguished Presidential Fellow for International Affairs
at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In May 2004, he joined the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) as the first Director
of the new AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy (CSTSP),
funded by the MacArthur Foundation. Dr. Neureiter is married with four
children and speaks German, Russian, Polish, French, Spanish and Japanese.
Benn H. Tannenbaum, PhD
Sr. Program Associate
Benn Tannenbaum is a Senior Program Associate at the Center for Science,
Technology and Security Policy. Dr. Tannenbaum works on a variety of projects
for CSTSP, including drafting policy briefs, tracking legislation, serving
as liaison with MacArthur-funded centers and the security policy community,
organizing workshops and other meetings, attending Congressional hearings
and conducting topical research.
 Prior
to joining AAAS, Dr. Tannenbaum worked as a Senior Research Analyst for
the Federation of American Scientists. Dr. Tannenbaum worked extensively
on the FAS paper Flying Blind; this paper explores ways to increase the
quality and consistency of science advising to the federal government.
He also researched nuclear weapons testing and prepared a paper on the
subject. He coordinated FAS's Congressional outreach efforts.
Before joining FAS, Dr. Tannenbaum served as the 2002-2003 American Physical
Society Congressional Science Fellow. During his Fellowship, Dr. Tannenbaum
worked for Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) on nonproliferation
issues. This work included several key nuclear policy amendments, numerous
oversight letters and staffing the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation.
The legislative work focused on nuclear "bunker busters", missile
defense, Iran's nuclear program and preventing U.S. nuclear technology
from being transferred to North Korea. The oversight letters covered issues
ranging from the disbanding of the NNSA Advisory Committee, to the failure
to secure known nuclear sites in Iraq, to presenting a detailed plan to
solve the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Through the Bipartisan
Task Force on Nonproliferation, Dr. Tannenbaum brought nationally recognized
experts on topics such as Iran's nuclear program and political situation,
dirty bombs, and the Biological Weapons Convention to brief Members of
Congress and their staffs. His final Task Force event had Dr. Jane Goodall
and Michael Douglas addressing the need for strong, multilateral institutions
to solve problems such as nuclear proliferation and environmental damage.
Before his Fellowship, Dr. Tannenbaum worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow
at the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA, he was involved
in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland,
and the Collider Detector Facility at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
outside Chicago, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in particle physics from
the University of New Mexico in 1997. His dissertation involved a search
for evidence of supersymmetry. None was found.
Kavita M. Berger, PhD
Program Associate
 Kavita M. Berger née Marfatia received her BS in molecular genetics from The Ohio State University. There, she worked on project related to osteoporosis and cancer for her undergraduate Honors thesis.
Dr. Berger obtained her PhD in molecular genetics and molecular biology at Emory University. Her dissertation focused on mRNA export and nuclear transport. In pursuit of her degree, she performed techniques in cell biology, genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry. She presented her work at several international conferences, including the American Society for Cell Biology Conferences, program project grant meetings, and Southeastern Regional Yeast Meetings.
Following graduate school, she changed the focus of her research and did her post-doctoral work on HIV microbicides, HIV and smallpox vaccines, and immunological characterization of the human cervix. She learned many virologic and immunologic techniques for describing and analyzing drug and vaccine efficacy. Her work was presented at the Conference on Retroviruses and Infectious Diseases and AIDSVaccine05. Throughout her academic career, she instructed several undergraduate students in the lab and published several manuscripts.
Dr. Berger joined the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy in the fall of 2005.
Jan Ciambor
Executive Coordinator
Jan Ciambor is the Executive Coordinator for the Center for Science,
Technology and Security Policy. Jan supports CSTSP by providing scheduling
and administrative support to the Director, tracking the budget, planning
of meetings and workshops, as well as doing research and assisting with
publications.
Ms. Ciambor came to CSTPS from the American Society of Association Management
where she was the Education Program Manager for the Professional Development
Division. She has an extensive history in meeting planning on all levels.
Her most recent position included the design and development of educational
programs, program coordination, speaker management and logistical support. Ms. Ciambor's expertise is in the area of audioconferenced education programs.
Clifford E. Singerr
Visiting Scholar
 Clifford E. Singer received a Ph.D. in biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley and was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. He subsequently did research in plasma physics, advanced space propulsion, and the computational simulation of thermonuclear plasma performance at the University of London, Princeton University, and the University of Illinois. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institutes for Stroemungsforschung and Plasmaphysik at Goettingen and Garching in Germany and is a member of American Physical Society. His research interests include plutonium production and reprocessing in South Asia and arms control in India, Pakistan, and China. He is currently supervising research on global energy economics with emphasis on plutonium production and reprocessing in South Asia and on prospects for negotiations on greenhouse gas emissions between China and India. He developed the global studies courses, GLBL 480, "Military and Civilian Uses of Nuclear Energy" and GLBL 482, "Topics in Energy and Security." He is currently on sabbatical leave at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Center for Technology and Security Policy in Washington, DC.
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