Episode 3: Dr. Shanna Ratnesar-Shumate

Meet AAAR 2024 Conference Chair.
Shanna Ratnesar-Shumate, Ph.D., is a visiting faculty member in the Department of Chemical, Environmental, and Materials Engineering at the University of Miami. She currently works as a Senior Science Manager at Noblis-ESI and in that role serves as a science advisor to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Probabilistic Analysis for National Threats Hazards and Risks (PANTHR) Biological Threat Characterization (BTC) program and the Hazard Awareness and Characterization Technology Center (HAC-TC). Prior to this position she was an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology and Microbiology; an affiliate of the Global Center for Health Security; and a lecturer for the Biological Defense and Health Security Graduate Program at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. During this time, she served as a Fellow of the National Strategic Research Institute for the United States Department of Defense U.S. Strategic Command and an adjunct faculty member for the University of Nebraska Lincoln Morrison Center. Previously, she served as a Senior Principal Investigator of Aerobiology in the National Biological Threat Characterization Center, at the National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, a component of DHS S&T. Prior to the NBACC, Shanna was a Senior Scientist in the Aerosol Sciences Section of the Asymmetric Operations Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. She received her BS and ME in Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Sciences at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
More about Dr. Shumate- https://cast.miami.edu/members/shanna-ratnesar-shumate.html