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Meet Joe Biden's 2021 science team: a guide

As the US president announced his advisers and agency heads after taking office, Nature tracked the appointees who matter most to science.
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  1. Nidhi Subbaraman
  2. Jeff Tollefson
  3. Giuliana Viglione
  4. Alexandra Witze

After winning the US presidential election, Joe Biden moved quickly to name the experts who would advise him on a range of issues — including science. For instance, he quickly chose a chief science adviser, and he created new positions — a US coordinator and an international envoy — devoted to climate change. Nature tracked some of his top picks, from their appointments to their confirmations by the US Senate.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03485-w

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