Adam P. Fagen, PhD, has spent his career working to serve the scientific community with a particular focus on workforce and training issues, science policy, science education, communications, and non-profit society management.He currently serves as Director of External Affairs for the Association of Science and Technology Centers, where he makes the case for science and technology centers and museums and the broader fields of #scicomm, #sciengage, and STEM education.He spent five years as Executive Director of the Genetics Society of America, a scientific professional society with more than 5,700 members around the world, providing strategic leadership for all society activities and works with the elected Board of Directors to set organizational priorities and budgets. Areas of focus include policy and advocacy, communications and outreach, scholarly publishing and scientific meetings, and a focus on career development and member engagement.He was previously Director of Public Affairs for the American Society of Plant Biologists, where he led the society’s activities in Congressional and government relations, education, communications, and outreach.Before that, Fagen was Senior Program Officer with the Board on Life Sciences of the National Research Council where he directed studies on science education and training, biosecurity, interdisciplinary research, and stem cell research.Fagen most recently directed the Early Career Scientist segment at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), engaging grad students and postdocs in AAAS.He earned his PhD in molecular biology and education from Harvard with research focused on mechanisms for enhancing student learning and conceptual understanding in introductory biology and physics. Fagen also received an A.M. in molecular and cellular biology from Harvard and a B.A. from Swarthmore College with a double-major in biology and mathematics.He served as co-director of the 2000 National Doctoral Program Survey, an on-line assessment of doctoral programs organized by the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students, supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and completed by over 32,000 students.
Listed skills include Molecular Biology, Research, Science, Genetics, and 46 others.