The Jahn Research Group (www.jahnresearchgroup.net) focuses on domestic and global food system stability and security operating on the University of Wisconsin campus in a federal building under a Cooperative Agreement for Research and Development with the U.S. Government. In 2019, her work appeared in a wide range of publications including peer-reviewed science journals, the Middle East Quarterly, the Journal of International Relations, TIME, a major report published by Lloyd’s of London on Evolving Risk in the Global Food System, the U.S. Army War College Report “Implications of climate change for the U.S. Army,” and a book commissioned by the Special Operations Combatant Command (SOCOM) focused on unleashing strategic latency in a revisionist world order. She serves as editor for the PLoS-One channel, “Crop science, food security and food systems,” and is the Director of a non-profit organization, Knowledge Systems for Sustainability Consortion (KSS), a global network anchored at premier research institutions focused on building and testing decision-relevant knowledge systems. Her innovative approaches to inter-sector, international, trans-disciplinary partnerships; her engagement with emerging institutions; her active commitments to work with deeply challenged communities in the U.S. and abroad; and her integrated, very large projects focused on impact and technology transfer; have been highlighted widely in academic and popular press. In 2017, Jahn received the highest award from the Milwaukee Public Schools, “Excellence in Education,” for her work with a community of students, teachers, administrators, industry and higher education to found the Vincent High School of Agricultural Sciences, modeled after and greatly assisted by colleagues at the Chicago High School of Agricultural Sciences.
Dr. Jahn received the BA with Distinction in Biology from Swarthmore College, holds graduate degrees from MIT and Cornell University, and has been awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from Swarthmore College and Anglia Ruskin University. She was named a Rothamsted Fellow in 2014, the first Lilian Martin Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Martin School in 2015, Commencement Speaker at the University of Sydney (2016), and is a Fellow of the AAAS, and the Wisconsin Academy of Arts, Sciences and Letters.