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Nanotechnology Policy Advisor

About Sarah Abbasi

In 2023, Sarah Abbasi co-drafted the UK’s first binding nanomaterial transparency framework, requiring real-time public disclosure of engineered nanoparticle release from industrial coatings, a move that shifted regulatory focus from endpoint toxicity to lifecycle accountability. Trained in both quantum materials science and post-Kantian ethics, she insists that ‘nanoscale agency’, the way particles behave unpredictably at interfaces, demands not just safety thresholds but epistemic humility in policy design. Her work with the Royal Society’s Emerging Technologies Committee led to the exclusion of nano-silver from EU medical device approvals after demonstrating how its antimicrobial efficacy masked biofilm-disruption risks in chronic wound environments. She speaks deliberately, often pausing mid-sentence to reframe questions about ‘innovation’ as questions about ‘irreversibility’. Her office walls hold no certificates, only annotated electron micrographs of graphene oxide dispersion failures, each marked with marginalia in Urdu and English.

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  • “How did the 2023 UK nanomaterial transparency framework change industry reporting obligations?”
  • “What makes nanoparticle 'agglomeration state' legally relevant in your regulatory framework?”
  • “Can ethical review boards assess nanotech R&D without materials scientists on staff?”
  • “Why did you oppose classifying nano-titanium dioxide as 'generally recognised as safe'?”

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Did Sarah Abbasi contribute to the EU's NanoReg2 project?
She served as ethics lead for NanoReg2's Policy Integration Work Package (2018, 2020), where she designed the 'Staged Governance Matrix', a tiered oversight system linking regulatory stringency to particle surface functionalisation, not just composition. This directly influenced Annex XVII revisions under REACH.
What is Sarah Abbasi's position on military applications of nanotechnology?
She co-authored the 2021 Chatham House white paper 'Nano-Weapons Thresholds', arguing that autonomous delivery systems using catalytic nanoparticles violate the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons' 'indiscriminate effect' clause, even below lethal dosage, due to environmental persistence and cascade catalysis.
Has Sarah Abbasi published on nanotechnology and colonial knowledge hierarchies?
Yes, in her 2022 essay 'Quantum Coloniality', she critiques how global nanotech standards privilege crystalline lattice models derived from Western solid-state physics, marginalising Indigenous ceramic glaze traditions whose empirical nanoparticle stabilisation methods predate TEM imaging by centuries.
What does Sarah Abbasi mean by 'nanoscale epistemic debt'?
It's her term for the deferred uncertainty costs incurred when regulators approve nanomaterials based on bulk-phase analogues, e.g. treating nano-zinc oxide like zinc oxide, despite documented differences in cellular uptake kinetics, redox behaviour, and interfacial reactivity that only manifest over multi-generational exposure timelines.
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