Ivana Hughes2023-10-27T03:23:50-07:00

Ivana Nikolić Hughes

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Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry at Columbia University. She holds a BS with Honors from Caltech, where she studied chemical engineering and completed her Senior Thesis with Prof. Frances Arnold, the first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Dr. Hughes obtained her PhD from Stanford University, where she was an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellow. She has been a faculty member at Columbia University since 2008 and was awarded the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award for 2020. Her work on ascertaining the radiological conditions in the Marshall Islands has been covered widely. Dr. Hughes currently serves as a member of the Scientific Advisory Group to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, a committee consisting of 15 experts from around the world who advise the states parties on scientific issues as they pertain to the treaty. Her writing has appeared in The Nation, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, The Hill, Truthout, Common Dreams, The Diplomat, and elsewhere. 

Videos

NAPF Statement at the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Preparatory Conference on August 2, 2023

Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes delivers the 19th Annual Kelly Lecture on May 25, 2023

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