Emma Frow has a joint appointment with the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) and the School of Biological & Health Systems Engineering (SBHSE) at Arizona State University. Her research focuses on the governance of emerging biotechnologies, and she has been studying and working alongside the synthetic biology community in the US and Europe since 2008. Emma is a Council member for the Engineering Biology Research Consortium (EBRC), and serves on advisory panels for UK and Australian synthetic biology initiatives. She teaches courses on social & ethical dimensions of bioengineering, and was an iGEM judge and team mentor from 2008-2018. Emma currently has NSF-funded research projects on biofoundries and biocontainment of genetically engineered organisms.