Dr. Evagelia C. Laiakis is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Radiation Medicine at Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center. She also holds appointments in the Department of Oncology and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology. She received a PhD in Human Genetics from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and completed her post-doctoral fellowship at Georgetown University. She is an elected Council Member and Board Member to the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) and has been serving at the Programmatic Area Committee 1 (Basic Criteria, Epidemiology, Radiobiology, and Risk). She is the 2019 recipient of the Jack Fowler Award from the Radiation Research Society and served as a member of the committee for Developing a Long-Term Strategy for Low-Dose Radiation Research in the United States from the National Academies. Her research interests focus on metabolic perturbations and biomarker discovery utilizing metabolomics and lipidomics, focusing primarily on biodosimetry, space biology, and radiotherapy responses.