Goncagul Baris is a PhD Scholar at The University of Queensland (UQ). Her work sits at the intersection of biotechnology, law, and biosecurity. She studies how legal frameworks shape the development and operation of technical standards in emerging biotechnologies, particularly how they can be embedded and sustained in synthetic biology to enable interoperability and interconnectivity.

Drawing on expertise in intellectual property law and biotechnology, her work looks beyond formal adoption to understand the conditions that make standards accessible and trusted across dynamic research sites. Within this broader research agenda, she also considers how biosafety and biosecurity considerations can be incorporated into technical standards and the research workflows they influence.

Through academic research and international collaboration, she contributes to the development of practical, internationally aligned governance frameworks that support innovation while maintaining strong and credible safeguards.