Paul Filmer

Washington D.C. Metro Area, Virginia United States

Program Director at National Science Foundation

I am a politically- and socially-aware scientist who worries about the ability of democracies to make important decisions when their citizens are poorly informed, and have poor analytical thinking skills. I'm known for explaining complex problems in understandable terms, and for my ability as chairman to reconcile opposed public political positions by country government delegations. In addition to developing and managing programs of research for the Federal Government in climate change and evolution, I managed the Twitter and Facebook social media outreach effort for the National Science Foundation after surreptitiously beginning them in 2008, and finally delivering them to a moderniz