Biography
Research Staff Member, Science and Technology Policy Institute
Todd Ringler is a senior staff member at the Science Technology Policy Institute, where he supports policy initiatives within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Before joining STPI, he spent more than two years working in the House of Representatives as a National Security Science Fellow, where he managed a wide-ranging legislative portfolio, including science and technology, climate policy, foreign affairs, and national security. While working in Congress, he helped develop and move new legislation related to reducing carbon emissions, incorporating climate change into national security planning, environmental cleanup of toxic chemicals, and workforce apprenticeship programs. Before moving to Washington, D.C., he was a senior scientist in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He led a diverse, 20-member science team to build a new Earth system model for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. He has degrees in aerospace engineering (M.S.) and atmospheric sciences (Ph.D.) from Cornell University. He has held positions of visiting scholar at Princeton University and visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge.
I want to help introduce EAS students to the opportunities available for them to make an impact through government service and working in the national lab system.