He also serves as the Associate Director of Integration at CNS-ASU. Fisher leads the Socio-Technical Integration Research (STIR; NSF #0849101) project as its PI and leads RTTA 4: Integration & Reflexivity. Fisher studies the multi-level governance of emerging technologies, spanning the nested chains of agency from "lab to legislature." He developed the collaborative, interdisciplinary approach of Midstream Modulation to help understand how social and ethical aspects of science and engineering decision-making may be broadened. His approach is being employed in over twenty laboratories on three continents as part of the STIR project.