Ben Fontes has previously worked in the Radiation Protection and Biological Safety Departments in the Environmental Health and Safety Office at Harvard University, serving as Health Physics Technologist, Assistant Biosafety Officer and Associate Biosafety Officer. 

At Harvard, he assisted with the implementation of the Biosafety program at both the University and at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. 

Ben Fontes 曾在哈佛大學環境健康與安全辦公室輻射防護和生物安全系工作，擔任衛生物理技術專家、生物安全助理干事和生物安全協理干事。

在哈佛期間，他主要在哈佛大學和哈佛附屬醫院協助生物安全項目的實施。

He began work at Yale in 1995, where he is currently responsible for management of the campus Biosafety Program and co-management of the EHS Safety Advisor Program. 

Ben has an undergraduate degree in biology from Wesleyan University (1986) and a MPH in industrial hygiene from the University of Michigan (1995). 

He is a Certified Biological Safety Professional (1998) and an active member of the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA), where he has served as the 2010 President of the association. He also previously served as an ABSA Councilor (2002 – 2005) and Chair of the ABSA Training and Education Committee (1999 – 2002). 

Ben is currently on the executive board of the International Federation of Biosafety Associations (IFBA) where he has served as Chair from 2014 – 2017. 

Ben于1995年開始在耶魯大學工作，目前負責校園生物安全項目的管理和環境健康安全顧問項目的共同管理。

1986年 獲得衛斯理大學生物學學士學位

1995年 獲密歇根大學工業衛生學碩士學位

1998年 成為認證生物安全專員

1999-2002年 美國生物安全協會培訓與教育委員會主席

2010年 美國生物安全協會（ABSA）主席

2014-2017年 國際生物安全協會聯合會（IFBA）主席

He has served for the past 3 years as a biosafety twin for new biosafety professionals in the Middle East and North Africa as part of a Sandia National Laboratories twinning and mentorship program, helping his assigned partners with guidance on their biosafety and biosecurity projects.

近3年，作為美國桑迪亞國家實驗室“雙聯”和導師計劃的一部分，他在中東和北非為新的生物安全專業人員擔任生物安全導師，旨在幫助分配給他們的伙伴提供生物安全和生物安保項目方面的指導。