I am currently researching nuclear issues at the Liu Institute of Public Policy and Global Affairs. 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, “The Price of Modernization: Cyber Vulnerabilities in the Nuclear Arsenal,” submitted to Science & Global Security
• 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: “Inherent computer-related risks of nuclear weapons command and control modernization,” 30th International Summer Symposium on Science and World Affairs, July 2018, Vancouver, BC,

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 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