Adam Briggle completed a bachelor's in Biology from St. John's University in Minnesota and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2006 with a PhD in Environmental Studies, where his dissertation focused on the Kass Bioethics Council. He then accepted a position at the University of Twente in the Netherlands in the Philosophy Department, the only humanities department in what is otherwise an entrepreneurial and engineering institution. At the University of North Texas, Dr. Briggle is currently teaching classes related to ethics of science and philosophy of science and getting ready for the publication of his forthcoming book, A Rich Bioethics: Public Policy, Biotechnology, and the Kass Council.