Brian Wolshon

Brian Wolshon, Ph.D., P.E., PTOE is the Edward A. and Karen Wax Schmitt Distinguished Professor of Civil Engineering at Louisiana State University and the founder and Director of the Gulf Coast Research Center for Evacuation and Transportation Resiliency. During his 24 years at LSU, he has engaged on a diverse variety of research projects, but is most-noted for his research in the design, operation, and management of transportation systems for emergency and major event conditions. In 2001, Dr. Wolshon founded the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies Committee on Emergency Evacuation and for 17 years served as its Chair. He has been appointed as an International Visiting Professor at Beihang University in China; the National Disaster Preparedness Training Center at the University of Hawaii; the University of New South Wales in Australia; in the Radiological Consequence Management and Response Technologies Department at the Sandia National Laboratories; and as an Affiliate Researcher in the Energy & Infrastructure Analysis Laboratory at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico. He has authored dozens federal reports, book chapters, and more than 80 scientific journal papers, including numerous seminal works related to evacuation planning and engineering. He has also served as an expert consultant to dozens of federal, state, and local government agencies; national laboratories; and engineering firms throughout the United States. He also been interviewed by more the 100 media outlets including The Discovery Channel, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Fox News, NPR, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Times of London among many others and has served as a commentator on several television programs.