Lisa Nichols

Dr. Lisa Nichols is Executive Director, Research Security, at the University of Notre Dame where she has oversight for research security, export controls, regulated data/controlled unclassified information, and facility security/classified research. She previously held roles at the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Council on Governmental Relations (COGR). At COGR she engaged with federal agencies on research security and other compliance areas on behalf of institutions of higher education and at OSTP as the lead for academic engagement and in the development of National Security Presidential Memorandum-33. She served as Principal Investigator (PI) on an NSF cooperative agreement to develop research security training for the U.S. research community and currently serves as PI on a SECURE (Safeguarding the Entire Community in the U.S. Research Ecosystem) Center subaward as part of their national team to develop research security resources and tools using a community centered approach. She is Co-chair of the Federal Demonstration Partnership’s Research Security Subcommittee consisting of both federal and institutional members, and a member of a higher education association science and security working group and the National Academies Assessing Research Security Workshop Planning Committee. Dr. Nichols holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Purdue University and is a former American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow.