At Oregon State since 1994. Kathryn Higley’s fields of interest include environmental transport and fate of radionuclides, radioecology, radiochemistry, radiation dose assessment, neutron activation analysis, nuclear emergency response, and environmental regulations. She has held both reactor operator and senior reactor operator’s licenses, and is a former reactor supervisor for the Reed College TRIGA reactor. Higley has been at Oregon State University since 1994 teaching undergraduate and graduate classes on radioecology, dosimetry, radiation protection, radiochemistry, and radiation biology. She was head of the School of Nuclear Science and Engineering from 2010-2020. She spent fourteen years with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as an environmental health physicist at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation and three years in environmental radiation monitoring at the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant in Oregon. She was the Chair of the International Commission on Radiological Protection’s Committee 5: Protection of the Environment, and currently is the 7th President of the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (which advises the US Government on radiation safety issues). She served as an HPS Board Member (2020-2023) and is a Fellow of the Health Physics Society. She is a Certified Health Physicist. More recently she served as associate director of the TRACE project, Oregon State’s multidisciplinary effort to monitor prevalence of COVID-19 at OSU campuses and statewide. In 2022 she was named an OSU Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering. She also served as Interim Director of the Center for Quantitative Life Sciences, from 2022-2024.