Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante

Fellow, Technology and National Security Program

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Constanza M. Vidal Bustamante, PhD, is a fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she leads the Center’s quantum technology policy portfolio. Vidal Bustamante’s research investigates quantum technologies’ role in strengthening national and economic security, their current capabilities and bottlenecks, and policy solutions to both advance and protect U.S. quantum innovation.

Prior to CNAS, Vidal Bustamante was a Mirzayan Science and Technology Policy fellow with the National Academies of Sciences, where she investigated strategic priorities to build the U.S. semiconductor manufacturing workforce. She additionally contributed to multiple workshops with experts in government, industry, and academia on topics including enhancing lab-to-market technology transfer and expanding technological innovation in the health sector.

Vidal Bustamante completed her PhD at Harvard University. Her doctoral research leveraged wearable sensors to characterize individuals’ real-world behavioral patterns and health outcomes. While at Harvard, she was also president of the Harvard Science Policy Group and a researcher with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where she authored reports on digital technologies and on the broader U.S. technology leadership strategy, with a focus on industrial policies and the CHIPS and Science Act.

Vidal Bustamante holds doctoral, master's, and bachelor’s degrees in psychology and cognitive neuroscience from Harvard University.

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