Filippa Lentzos

Filippa Lentzos is a Norwegian social scientist researching threats posed by biological agents. She is a senior research fellow at King's College London, holding a joint appointment in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine and the Department of War Studies. Lentzos also holds the position of associate senior researcher at the Armament and Disarmament Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Moreover, she is the NGO Coordinator for the Biological Weapons Convention since 2017, the biosecurity columnist at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists since 2018, and an associate editor of the social science journal BioSocieties.

The work of Lentzos has been featured in various media outlets, including the BBC, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Telegraph, the Atlantic and Der Spiegel. In July 2021 Scientific American quoted her concerns that the same artificially created proteins utilized for modern experimental vaccines could easily end up being misused as bioweapons.

Lentzos also taught the module on biological weapons in the EU's Non-proliferation and Disarmament e-learning course.

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Journal articles