Författare: Igor Linkov

Dr. Igor Linkov is the Risk and Decision Science Focus Area Lead with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, and Adjunct Professor with Carnegie Mellon University.  Dr. Linkov has managed multiple risk and resilience assessments and management projects in many application domains, including cybersecurity, transportation, supply chain, homeland security and defense, and critical infrastructure.  He was part of several Interagency Committees and Working Groups tasked with developing resilience metrics and resilience management approaches, including the US Army Corps of Engineers Resilience Roadmap. Dr. Linkov has organized more than thirty national and international conferences and continuing education workshops, including NATO workshops on Cyber Resilience in Estonia (2018) and Finland (2019), as well as Chaired Program Committee for 2015 and 2019 World Congresses on Risk in Singapore and Cape Town.  He has published widely on environmental policy, environmental modeling, and risk analysis, including twenty books and over 350 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters in top journals, like Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Climate Change, among others.  He has served on many review and advisory panels for DOD, DHS, FDA, EPA, NSF, EU and other US and international agencies.  Dr. Linkov is Society for Risk Analysis Fellow and recipient of 2005 Chauncey Starr Award for exceptional contribution to Risk Analysis as well as 2014 Outstanding Practitioner Award.   He is Elected Fellow with the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Dr. Linkov has a B.S. and M.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics (Polytechnic Institute) and a Ph.D. in Environmental, Occupational and Radiation Health (University of Pittsburgh).  He completed his postdoctoral training in Risk Assessment at Harvard University. Dr. Benjamin D. Trump is an ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow for the US Army Corps of Engineers and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. He has also held a postdoctoral appointment at the University of Maryland, and as a research intern at the Institute of Occupational Medicine in Singapore. Dr. Trump’s work focuses on decision making and governance of activities under significant uncertainty, such as emerging and enabling technologies (synthetic biology, nanotechnology) and developing organizational, infrastructural, social, and informational resilience against systemic threats to complex interconnected systems. Dr. Trump served as a delegate to assist US presence in OECD’s Global Science Forum in 2017, and is the President of the Society for Risk Analysis’ Decision Analysis and Risk Specialty Group in 2018-2019. His work has been featured in over 50 peer-reviewed publications, journal articles, and book chapters, including publications in Nature, Nature Nanotechnology, EMBO Reports, Environmental Science & Technology, Health Policy, and Regulation and Governance, among others. Dr. Trump was also an author of the International Risk Governance Council’s Guidelines for the Governance of Systemic Risks, as well as their 2 nd Volume of the Resource Guide on Resilience. Dr. Trump is also frequently active with several Advanced Research Workshops for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s Science for Peace Programme, including his role as a Director of a workshop titled Cybersecurity and Resilience for the Arctic. Dr. Trump received his Ph D from the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health, Department of Health Management and Policy in 2016. He received a M.S. (2012) in Public Policy and Management and a B.S. in Political Science (2011) from Carnegie Mellon University.