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
- M. Zürch, Hung-Tzu Chang, Peter M. Kraus, Scott K. Cushing, Lauren J. Borja, Andrey Gandman, Christopher J. Kaplan, Myoung H. Oh, James S. Prell, David Prendergast, C.D. Pemmaraju, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, “Carrier thermalization and trapping in Silicon-Germanium Alloy probed by Attosecond XUV Transient Absorption Spectroscopy,” Structural Dynamics, 2017
- M. Zürch,† Hung-Tzu Chang,† Lauren J. Borja,† Peter M. Kraus, Scott K. Cushing, Andrey Gandman, Christopher J. Kaplan, Myoung H. Oh, James S. Prell, David Prendergast, C.D. Pemmaraju, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, “Direct and simultaneous observation of ultrafast electron and hole dynamics in germanium,” Nature Communications, 2017
- †These authors contributed equally to this work
- Hung-Tzu Chang, M. Zürch, Peter M. Kraus, Lauren J. Borja, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, “Simultaneous generation of sub-5-femtosecond 400 nm and 800 nm pulses for attosecond extreme ultraviolet pump-probe spectroscopy,” Optics Letters, 2016
- Lauren J. Borja, M. Zürch, C.D. Pemmaraju, Martin Schultze, Krupa Ramasesha, Andrey Gandman, James S. Prell, David Prendergast, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, “Extreme ultraviolet transient absorption of solids from femtosecond to attosecond timescales,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2016
- Martin Schultze, Krupa Ramasesha, C.D. Pemmaraju, S.A. Sato, D. Whitmore, Andrey Gandman, James S. Prell, Lauren J. Borja, David Prendergast, K. Yabana, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, “Attosecond band-gap dynamics in silicon,” Science, 2014
- James S. Prell, Lauren J. Borja, Daniel M. Neumark, Stephen R. Leone, “Simulation of attosecond-resolved imaging of the plasmonic electric field in metallic nanoparticles,” Annalen der Physik, 2013
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 M4,5-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