Emil Nafis Iftekhar is a PhD candidate in physics at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation and a visiting researcher at the Technical University Berlin, Germany, where he is exploring pandemics, infodemics and their interactions. Prioritising biosecurity, he has been active in political consulting and advocacy on mitigating the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany and Europe, as well as preventing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks from bioweapons by contributing to the Youth Recommendations to the 2022 Review Conference to the Biological Weapons Convention. Outside of academia, he is concerned about risks from climate change and has lobbied for better national climate policy in Germany.
