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Dr. Benjamin L. Schmitt is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Development Scientist at Harvard University, where he focuses on the development of scientific instrumentation for future Antarctic astronomy facilities at the South Pole. Benjamin is also a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis in Washington, where he focuses on research relating to Transatlantic security, European energy security, and democratic resilience. From 2015 to 2019 Benjamin served as European Energy Security Advisor at the U.S. Department of State, where he advanced diplomatic engagement vital to the energy and national security interests of the Transatlantic community, with a focus on working with nations along NATO’s Eastern Flank to build resilience to an increasingly assertive Russia. Benjamin has been sought after as a lecturer on European energy security, and science and technology policy, recently giving lectures at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and the National Defense University. Schmitt regularly provides expert transatlantic security policy commentary for both print and television media, including with the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Germany’s Deutsche Welle. He has published national security analysis with The Daily Beast, The Hill, the Atlantic Council, Jamestown Foundation, CEPA, and the Harvard-Ukrainian Research Institute. Before entering government, Schmitt served as a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow while at the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his Ph.D. in Physics and Astronomy.
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