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Kirstin R. Matthews, PhD (she/her/hers)

Fellow in Science and Technology Policy
Rice University
Houston, Texas

Kirstin R.W. Matthews, Ph.D., is a fellow in science and technology policy at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, where she is the Director of the Science and Technology Policy Program. She is also a lecturer in the Department of BioSciences at Rice University, a track advisor for the Wiess School of Natural Sciences’ Professional Science Master in Biosciences and Health Policy, a core member of the Rice Synthetic Biology Institute, and a steering committee member for Rice’s Medical Humanities Research Institute.
Matthews iresearch focuses on ethical and policy issues at the intersection between traditional biomedical research and public policy. Specifically, she focuses on regulation and ethical issues associated with emerging biotechnology, including vaccines, stem cells, human embryos, synthetic biology technologies, and personalized genomic medicine. Matthews also collaborates with Kenneth Evans and Neal Lane to understand how scientific advice is used in and provided for the federal government, including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) -- building the first and only dynamic digital collection of these efforts. The White House Scientist Archive (https://digitalcollections.rice.edu/white-house-scientist-and-science-policy-dynamic-digital-archive) includes papers, talks, interviews, and photos from scientists, engineers, technologists and others who provide science advice to presidents from 1990 to present.
Matthews has a B.A. in biochemistry from The University of Texas at Austin and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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