Lisbeth Gronlund is a physicist and researcher in the Laboratory for Nuclear Security and Policy at MIT. She has a PhD in physics from Cornell University and has worked on technical and policy issues related to nuclear weapons, missile defenses, and space weapons for over three decades. She was a Senior Scientist in the Union of Concerned Scientists’ Global Security Program from 1992 to 2020, serving as Co-director beginning in 2002. Before that, she was a research fellow in the MIT Defense and Arms Control Studies Program and at the Center for International Security Studies at the University of Maryland. She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Physical Society.
