Weiss

Talia Weiss is the director of International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) and a Physics PhD student at Yale University. She received a B.S. in Physics from MIT and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where her thesis investigated how scientists who developed gene editing technologies viewed the ethics of their research. Talia created the Kimball Smith Series in 2021, an ongoing program at Yale which tackles issues at the intersection of science, ethics, and global affairs, ranging from nuclear weapons risks to AI policy. She previously developed a similar program for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2023, Talia was a Next-Generation Fellow of the Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction. She has written and guest-lectured on nuclear weapons and energy, the history of scientific responsibility and self-regulation, and the case of Nazi nuclear physicists