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Khara Grieger

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Asst Professor

Department of Applied Ecology

Plant Sciences Building 3124

Bio

Dr. Khara Grieger is currently an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Environmental Health & Risk Assessment. She currently serves as Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI of federally-funded grants focused on investigating potential risks and impacts of new technologies and developing sustainable, responsible, and inclusive solutions. For instance, she currently serves as PI of a USDA/NIFA-funded grant that investigates risks and societal impacts of nanotechnology and genetic engineering in food and agriculture. She also serves as Co-PI and Co-Director of Knowledge Transfer for a NSF-funded Science and Technologies for Phosphorus Sustainability (STEPS) Center housed at NC State. In addition, she serves as Co-PI in a NC State-funded GRIP4PSI project that develops new technologies for use in the sweetpotato industry in North Carolina (Sweet-APPS) in which she leads the stakeholder engagement efforts, and Co-PI on a NSF-funded grant that focuses on governance of climate management technologies. Further, she is an Executive Committee member of the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center, member of the Center for Human Health and the Environment (CHHE) at NC State, Councilor for the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), and President of the Research Triangle chapter of SRA.

To date, she has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and 12 book chapters on aspects of risk analysis, risk assessment, risk governance, decision-making, and stakeholder engagement in complex contexts of emerging technologies, advanced materials, and/or emerging risks. She has received numerous awards for her work, including NC State’s Goodnight Early Career Innovator Award (2021), Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network Collaborative Award (2018), and American Society of Civil Engineers State-of-the-Art Civil Engineering Award (2017) among others.

Prior to joining Applied Ecology, she served as a Senior Research Scholar in the GES Center from March 2019 through June 2020. She also was a Senior Environmental Research Scientist at RTI International in the Health and Environmental Risk Analysis program (2012-2019), a Duke University Scholar (2017-2018), and Adjunct Professor at Meredith College (2014).

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