Lawrence Lin

Lawrence Lin is a foreign affairs officer in the Office of the Science and Technology Adviser at the Department of State. He has served previous as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow in the same office. He is working on science diplomacy broadly as well as science and technology for developing countries, including geospatial sciences, agriculture, food security, climate change, and most recently, renewable energy. Prior to his current position, he was a National Academy of Sciences Mirzayan Fellow working on the initial phases of a comprehensive energy technology study with the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences and the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems. Lawrence completed his PhD in physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara in June of 2006. His graduate research involved the use of simplified models of biological membranes as a means for studying various biophysical processes. Working with these models, he did theoretical calculations and performed simulations to quantitatively analyze different systems containing cell membranes. His undergraduate studies were done at Brown University where he wrote a thesis in the area of cosmology and large scale structure of the universe.