Benjamin Trump
Bio
Ben Trump is a nationally recognized expertise in risk analysis, anticipatory governance, synthetic and engineered biology, AI-biotech convergence, and resilience. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Public Administration in the School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Applied Ecology. Additionally, he is a faculty member of the Genetic Engineering and Society Cluster in the Chancellor’s Faculty Excellence Program.
Education
PhD Risk Governance of Emerging Technologies University of Michigan School of Public Health 2016
Master’s Degree Public Policy and Management Carnegie Mellon University – Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy 2012
Bachelor’s Degree Political Science Carnegie Mellon University 2011
Publications
- Operationalizing human factors in critical infrastructure resilience stress testing: a research agenda , Environment Systems & Decisions (2026)
- The time window before biological AI spreads , EMBO Reports (2026)