Harshini Mukundan
Interim Department Head, Bioengineering and Biomedical Sciences
Biography
In addition to being the Interim Department Head of Bioengineering and Biomedical Sciences, Harshini Mukundan is the Chemical and Biological Technologies Program Lead in Berkeley Lab’s Office of National Homeland Security and the Biosciences Area’s Strategic Programs Development Group. She leads the chemical and biological technologies program development and runs a lab in the Biosciences Area.
Before joining Berkeley Lab, Mukundan was the group leader for physical chemistry and applied spectroscopy at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and led the development of diagnostics and surveillance technologies in the interest of national and homeland security. Mukundan earned her PhD in biomedical science at The University of New Mexico School of Medicine and an MS at the National Institute of Immunology in India.
Research Interests
biopreparedness and health; AI standards for biology; biosecurity
Recent Publications
No publications are available at this time.
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