Dr Rios Rojas is a science diplomat, a government science advisor and, currently, a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (University of Cambridge) where she works at the interface of science and policymaking. Clarissa conducts research on the risks coming from emerging technologies and also builds Science-Policy interfaces that can provide scientific evidence and advice to different policy stakeholders (public sector, businesses and civil society).
Clarissa has worked closely with different international organizations building programs for women economic empowerment (UN Women), writing white papers on policy for economic transformation (WEF's Future Councils), collaborating on the production of reports on Foresight (G20, WHO), advising the new scientific agenda for the Sendai Framework (UNDRR/ISC), leading Science Government Advice workshops (Global Young Academy/INGSA), mentoring scientists in the Global South (UN's Biological Convention Program), among others.
Previously to CSER, Clarissa worked at the Ministry of Environment (Peru), The European Commission's Science and Knowledge Service (EU Science Hub), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (Switzerland), and the University of Queensland (Australia). Her personal website is: www.clarissarios.com
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New Narratives in Global Catastrophic Risk - Part 1
Report by S. J. Beard, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Xiaolei Zhang, Lorena Escudero
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Submission of Evidence for the UK’s Biological Security Strategy
Report by Khalisah L. Zulkefli, Tan Jaymi, Sandra López-Vergès, John H. Malone, Alexander Kagansky, Abhi Veerakumarasivam, Bartlomiej Kolodziejczyk, Clarissa Rios Rojas
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Mitigating losses: how scientific organisations can help address the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on early-career researchers
Paper by Sandra López-Vergès, Bernardo Urbani, David Fernández Rivas, Sandeep Kaur-Ghumaan, Anna K. Coussens, Felix Moronta-Barrios, Suraj Bhattarai, Leila Niamir, Velia Siciliano, Andreea Molnar, Amanda Weltman, Meghnath Dhimal, Shalini S. Arya, Karen J. Cloete, Almas Taj Awan, Stefan Kohler, Chandra Shekhar Sharma, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Yoko Shimpuku, John Ganle, Maryam M. Matin, Justine G. Nzweundji, Abdeslam Badre, Paulina Carmona-Mora
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Ten tips for overcoming language barriers in science
Paper by Tatsuya Amano, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Yap Boum II, Margarita Calvo, Biswapriya B. Misra
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Informing management of lockdowns and a phased return to normality: a Solution Scan of non-pharmaceutical options to reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission
Report by William Sutherland, David C. Aldridge, Philip Martin, Catherine Rhodes, Gorm Shackelford, S. J. Beard, Andrew J. Bladon, Cameron Brick, Mark Burgman, Alec P. Christie, Lynn V. Dicks, Andrew P. Dobson, Harriet Downey, Fangyuan Hua, Amelia S.C. Hood, Alice C. Hughes, Rebecca M. Jarvis, Douglas MacFarlane, Anne-Christine Mupepele, William H. Morgan, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Stefan J. Marciniak, Cassidy Nelson, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Katherine A. Sainsbury, Rebecca K. Smith, Lalitha Sundaram, Hannah Tankard, Nigel G. Taylor, Ann Thornton, John Watkins, Thomas B. White, Kate Willott, Silviu O. Petrovan, Haydn Belfield
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Point of View: Bioengineering horizon scan 2020
Peer-reviewed paper by Luke Kemp, Laura Adam, Christian R. Boehm, Rainer Breitling, Rocco Casagrande, Malcolm Dando, Appolinaire Djikeng, Nicholas Evans, Richard Hammond, Kelly Hills, Lauren Holt, Todd Kuiken, Alemka Markotić, Piers Millett, Johnathan A Napier, Cassidy Nelson, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Anne Osbourn, Megan Palmer, Nicola J Patron, Edward Perello, Wibool Piyawattanametha, Vanessa Restrepo-Schild, Clarissa Rios Rojas, Catherine Rhodes, Anna Roessing, Deborah Scott, Philip Shapira, Christopher Simuntala, Robert DJ Smith, Lalitha Sundaram, Eriko Takano, Gwyn Uttmark, Bonnie Wintle, Nadia B Zahra, William Sutherland