I am currently a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Previously, I was a Simons Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Liu Institute for Public Policy and Global Affairs at the University of British Columbia. I have published articles on the Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons, the danger of nuclear false alarms, and cybersecurity in the nuclear arsenal.

As a graduate student, I built an ultrafast laser apparatus to study electrons in semiconductor thin films and metal nanostructures.

Nuclear Policy Publications

• Lauren J. Borja and M.V. Ramana, “Command and Control of India’s Nuclear Arsenal,” accepted at Journal of Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
• M.V. Ramana and Lauren J. Borja, “The Computer Infection of Kudankulam and its Implications,” The India Forum, January 2020
• Lauren J. Borja, “Assessing Priorities towards Achieving Dependable and Secure Computing in the U.S. ICBM Force,” Science & Global Security, online December 2019
• M.V. Ramana and Lauren J. Borja, “Canada could slow the accelerating nuclear arms race,” The Conversation, September 2019
• M.V. Ramana and Lauren J. Borja, “Command and Control of Nuclear Weapons in India,” The Nautilus Peace and Security Network (NAPSNet) Special Report, August 2019
• Lauren J. Borja, “Missing from the 2019 Missile Defense Review: Cybersecurity,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2019
• Lauren J. Borja and M.V. Ramana, “Cyber Vulnerabilities and Nuclear Weapons Risks,” Physics & Society, January 2019
• Lauren J. Borja and M.V. Ramana, “The argument from cyberspace for eliminating nuclear weapons,”The Conversation, November 2018
• Lauren J. Borja and M.V. Ramana, “A reminder from Hawaii,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2017
• M.V. Ramana and Lauren J. Borja, “Canada must change course on nuclear disarmament,” Vancouver Sun, December 2017
• M.V. Ramana and Lauren J. Borja, “Canada is missing its chance to shut the gate on nuclear weapons everywhere,” October 2017

Nuclear Policy Presentations and Posters

• Lauren J. Borja, presentation and paper: “Cybersecurity Risks in U.S. Nuclear Weapons,” 11th International Students Young Pugwash Conference, rescheduled: October 2020
• Lauren J. Borja, Debak Das, Reid Pauly, with discussant Gabrielle Hecht, panel discussion: “Secrecy and Deniability in the Nuclear Realm,” Center for International Security and Cooperation Research Seminar, February 2020, Stanford University
• Lauren J. Borja, presentation “Cybersecurity Priorities for U.S. ICBMs,” Nuclear Policy Panel, January 2020, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Lauren J. Borja, presentation: “Cybersecurity Risks in U.S. ICBMs,” Union of Concerned Scientists Technical Webinar, December 2019
• Lauren J. Borja, presentation and memo: “The Cyber Insider Threat to the U.S. Arsenal,” Stanton Nuclear Security Fellows Seminar, Washington, D.C.
• Lauren J. Borja, presentation: “Indian Nuclear Command and Control: A History and Recent Developments,” 31th International Summer Symposium on Science and World Affairs, August 2019, Beirut, Lebanon
• Lauren J. Borja, presentation: ” Cyber vulnerabilities in the US nuclear weapons arsenal,” The Future of Nuclear Studies, July 2019, Vancouver, Canada
• Lauren J. Borja, presentation: “Inherent computer-related risks of nuclear weapons command and control modernization,” 30th International Summer Symposium on Science and World Affairs, July 2018, Vancouver, Canada

Nuclear Policy Interviews

• Lauren J. Borja interviewed on The Rick Gibbons Show, 1310 NEWS Ottawa, November 9, 2018

Ultrafast Publications

Ultrafast Presentations and Posters

• Lauren J. Borja, Andrey Gandman, M. Zürch, James S. Prell, C.D. Pemmaraju, David Prendergast, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, presentation: “Ultrafast transient absorption at the germanium M_4,5-edge to measure electron and hole dynamics,” Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, June 2016, San Jose, CA
• Lauren J. Borja, Andrey Gandman, James S. Prell, C.D. Pemmaraju, M. Zürch, David Prendergast, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, poster: “Simultaneous femtosecond-resolved observation of independent hole and electron dynamics in germanium by XUV transient absorption,” International Symposium on Ultrafast Intense Laser Science 14, December 2015, Kauai, HI
• Lauren J. Borja, Madeline H. Elkins, Peter M. Kraus, C.D. Pemmeraju, David Prendergast, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, poster: “Attosecond electron dynamics in condensed matter systems,” Joint Attosecond Multidisciplinary University Research Initiatives Annual Meeting, November 2015, Orlando, FL
• Lauren J. Borja, presentation: “Observing plasmon dephasing with attosecond resolution,” Graduate Research Conference, September 2012, Berkeley, CA
• Lauren J. Borja, James S. Prell, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, poster: “Attosecond-resolved imaging of plasmon electric fields: a numerical simulation,” Ultrafast Dynamic Imaging of Matter, July 2012, Banff, AB