Areas of Expertise: biodefense; biosecurity; emerging technologies; synthetic biology; US bioeconomy; cognitive neuroscience/neurobiology; scientific collections; ethics & leadership in the Life Sciences; WMD Preparedness/Response.
Dr. Diane DiEuliis is an Expert Consultant in the areas of emerging biotechnology, biosecurity and biodefense, with over 26 years of experience in science, technology, and policy with the Federal government across multiple departments and agencies. She was a Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University, where she studied emerging biological technologies, dual use life sciences research, synthetic biology, the US bioeconomy, disaster recovery, and behavioral, cognitive, and social science as it relates to important aspects of deterrence and preparedness. Dr. DiEuliis also guest lectures in a variety of foundational professional military and other university education courses.
Before joining NDU, Dr. DiEuliis was the Deputy Director for Policy, and served as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and Planning, in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. While there, she coordinated policy in support of domestic and international health emergency preparedness and response activities.
Dr. DiEuliis was the Assistant Director for Life Sciences and Behavioral and Social Sciences in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President. During her tenure at the White House, which crossed multiple administrations, she developed policy and executive actions in biodefense, biosecurity, biotechnology, scientific collections, and social and behavioral sciences.
Dr. DiEuliis began her federal career as a program director at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), where she managed a diverse portfolio of neuroscience research in neurodegenerative diseases. She completed a fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in the Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research and completed her postdoctoral research in the NIH Intramural research program, where she focused on cellular and molecular neuroscience.
Dr. DiEuliis is a National Merit Scholar and recipient of the Distinguished Civilian Service Medal from the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Department of War. She has a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Delaware, in Newark, Delaware.
Selected Publications:
- "A Framework for Biological Weapons Deterrence." INSS, NDU, 2025.
- Giordano, James & DiEuliis, Diane. (2026). "Perceptions of Threat, Correlates of Dread, and Collective Instability: Implications for Cognitive Engagement and Deterrence Strategy." Open Journal of Social Sciences, 14 188-206.
- “When Biology Meets the Battlefield: An Interview with Diane DiEuliis”. War on the Rocks: COGS of War.
- Giordano J, DiEuliis D. 2025. "Dual use and gain-of-function research: a significant endeavor with biosecurity imperatives." mSphere 10:e00289-25.
- Giordano, James, et al. "Assessing Anomalous Health Incidents of " Havana Syndrome”: Potential Utility–and Issues–of Using Modular Integrated Artificial Intelligence.” EC Neurology 17.4 (2025): 1-8.
- DiEuliis D, Imperiale MJ, Berger KM. "Biosecurity Assessments for Emerging Transdisciplinary Biotechnologies: Revisiting Biodefense in an Age of Synthetic Biology." Appl Biosaf. 2024 Sep 18;29(3):123-132.
- DiEuliis, D. "Bolstering biosecurity amid the biotechnology revolution." Orbis. 2024;68(3):361–82.
- Diane DiEuliis & James Giordano, "Responding to Future Pandemics: Biosecurity Implications and Defense Considerations," Parameters 53, no. 2 (2023), doi:10.55540/0031-1723.3220.
- DiEuliis D, Giordano J. 2022. "The Need for Modernization of Biosecurity in the Post-COVID World." mSphere 7:e00025-22.
- DiEuliis, D. (2022). "Perspective: The rapidly expanding need for biosecurity by design." Biodesign research, 2022, 9809058.
- DiEuliis, Diane. "Parsing the Digital Biosecurity Landscape." Georgetown Journal of International Affairs," vol. 21, 2020, p. 166-172. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/gia.2020.0031.
- DiEuliis, Diane. "Key national security questions for the future of synthetic biology." Fletcher F. World Aff. 43 (2019): 127.
- DiEuliis D, Rao V, Billings EA, Meyer CB, Berger K. "Biodefense Policy Analysis—A Systems-based Approach. Health Security." 2019;17(2):83-99. doi:10.1089/hs.2018.0082
- Lutes, C. D., & Giordano, J. (2018). "Biodata risks and synthetic biology: a critical juncture." Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense, 9(01).
- DiEuliis, D., "Biotechnology for the Battlefield: In Need of a Strategy." War on the Rocks, November 2016.
- D. DiEuliis, K.R. Johnson, S.S. Morse, & D.E. Schindel. "Specimen collections should have a much bigger role in infectious disease research and response," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 113 (1) 4-7, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1522680112 (2016).