Christopher A.D. Roeser

Dr. Christopher A.D. Roeser is an assistant head of the Homeland Protection and Air Traffic Control Division at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. In this role, he focuses on strategy and technology development for a wide variety of traditional and gray zone security issues, including critical infrastructure, energy, air defense, information competition, and economic security.

Roeser joined the Laboratory in 2004, focusing on systems analysis and testing of various conventional and unconventional air defenses within the Air Vehicle Survivability Evaluation (AVSE) program for the U.S. Air Force Red Team. As the AVSE program lead from 2013 to 2017, he was responsible for providing technical assessments to senior Air Force leadership on a broad range of issues, including modern air defenses; electronic attack and electronic protection; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems; cyber vulnerabilities of tactical systems; and issues surrounding space control. Subsequently, he served as senior staff in the Advanced Technology Division where he focused on technology development strategy and the application of emerging technologies to Department of Defense missions.

Roeser holds an AB degree in physics from the University of Chicago and a PhD degree in physics from Harvard University.