Between 1992 and 1999, Maynard led research at the
UK Health and Safety Executive on occupational aerosol exposure. In January 2000, he moved to the
US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC), to develop a program of research into the potential health effects of engineered nanomaterials. In the early 2000s Maynard represented NIOSH on the
National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) - a US interagency initiative established to advance
nanotechnology research and support the responsible development and use of the technology—and between 2004-2005 he served as co-chair of the NNI Nanotechnology Environmental and Health Impacts interagency working group. In 2005 Maynard became Chief Science Advisor for the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies at the
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in his time in this role, helped inform national and global initiatives addressing the responsible development of nanotechnology. In 2010, he moved to the
University of Michigan as the Charles and Rita Gelman Professor of Risk Science in the School of Public Health. Between 2012-2014 he was Chair of the department of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan. In 2015, Maynard joined the faculty of the School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) at
Arizona State University, where he is chair of the Master of Science and Technology program, and Director of the Risk innovation Lab. Maynard has published over 150 scholarly papers, book chapters and books. His scholarly work spans physics and nanotechnology, to toxicology, risk perception, governance, and policy.
Congressional testimony In September 2006, Maynard testified before the
US House of Representatives Committee on Science on Research on Environmental and Safety Impacts of Nanotechnology. This was followed by invited testimony to the US House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Research and Science Education in October 2007, and again in 2008.
Service and leadership Maynard has been involved with the
World Economic Forum since 2008, through the Forum's Global Agenda Councils and Global Future Councils, and the Forum's Technology Pioneers. Between 2010-2011 he chaired the Forum Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, and between 2014-2016 he was co-chair of the Global Agenda Council on Nanotechnology. He is currently a member of the Forum's Global Future Council on Agile Governance. Maynard became a member of the Board of Trustees of the
International Life Sciences Institute North America in 2012. He has served on the President's Research Council of the
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) since 2017. Maynard has also served on three
National Academies of Science (NAS) committees. These have reviewed nanotechnology environment, health and safety research funded by the US government, a strategy for nanotechnology safety research, and the science of
science communication. He contributed to a NAS review and assessment of planetary protection policy development processes, and was a reviewer for the 2017 NAS report on human
genome editing.
Public engagement Maynard writes regularly for the news platform
The Conversation about technology and society.
Huffington Post, the
Australian Broadcasting Company,
Salon,
Phys.org,
Slate,
Popular Science, the
Daily Mail, the
San Francisco Chronicle,
Scientific American,
Marketwatch, the
Houston Chronicle, and IFL Science have published articles by him. YouTube channel
RiskBites, has over 20,000 subscribers. In 2007, Maynard started the blog 2020 Science; a blog that focuses on emerging technologies, and their relationship with society. Maynard's first popular science and technology book,
Films from the Future: The Technology and Morality of Sci-Fi Movies, was to be published by Mango Press in fall 2018. He cohosts the podcast Mission: Interplanetary. == References ==