Benoit Morel - biography
Bio: Born in France, Benoit Morel grew up mostly in Geneva Switzerland and completed a PhD at the university of Geneva in theoretical High Energy Physics. He had an extended postdoctoral career in Physics which took him to Harvard, CERN and CalTech. From there he moved to what was then the Center of International Security and Arms Control (CISAC) at Stanford as a "Science Fellow". His research interest shifted to International Security. From there he became faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been since.
His research interest in security includes Nuclear security (in particular the Iraqi and Indian programs), the Chemical weapon convention and progressively his main focus became cybersecurity policy and in particular its international dimension.