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Janet C. Johnston has been the Senior Export Control Officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2015. An alumna of MIT, she holds degrees in Physics (BS), Earth and Planetary Sciences (BS), Geophysics (MS), and Civil Engineering (MS). Previously, she worked for the U.S. Air Force as a seismologist, spent a year at the Pentagon in Research Laboratory Management in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, and then was appointed the Chief of Geophysics and Space Science liaison officer at the Air Force European Office of Aerospace Research and Development (London, UK), late because the head of the Tri-service committee on Russia, Former Soviet Union republics and Central Europe. Returning to the U.S., she took on the role of Chief of Marketing for the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, then transitioned back to science as the Program Manager and Principal Investigator for the successful Solar Mass Ejection Imager space weather experiment (with international partners), and finally became the Deputy Chief of Mission Planning-Foreign Military Sales and Missile Technology Control Regime certifier. She speaks Russian, is a martial artist, a private pilot, a dance teacher and choreographer, a singer, a motivational speaker, a master costume designer, a playwright, and is a published science fiction author, with interests in historical architecture, linguistics, cosmology, and performance arts.