Institute for Science, Technology &
Public Policy Fellows
The ISTPP Fellows program recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to the development of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy and to its mission, aims, and objectives. Participation as an ISTPP Fellow is by invitation from the Institute. Fellows are selected based upon current and past collaboration with the Institute on interdisciplinary proposals, projects, and scholarship, as well as distinguished accomplishments within the individual's discipline.
Inaugural Fellows of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University serve an initial two-year appointment, from September 1, 2008, to August 31, 2010, with possible re-appointments.
ISTPP Fellows, 2008-2010
Samuel D. Brody
Dr. Brody holds a joint appointment as associate professor in the departments of Marine Sciences and Landscape Architecture and Urban planning at Texas A&M University. He holds the George P. Mitchell '40 Chair in Sustainable Coasts and directs the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores and the Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit at the Galveston campus. Dr. Brody is conducting research and teaching in the areas of environmental planning, coastal management, climate change adaptation, and dispute resolution.
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William S. Charlton
Dr. Charlton is an associate professor of nuclear engineering and director of the Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute (NSSPI) at Texas A&M University. Dr. Charlton is an expert in the area of nuclear nonproliferation research and education. Prior to his appointment at Texas A&M, he was an assistant professor in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin and served as a technical staff member in the Nonproliferation and International Security Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He remains heavily involved with Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. His areas of research include reactor physics methods with applications to safeguards and nuclear nonproliferation, nuclear material production calculations, fuel cycle analysis, and nuclear fuel design and assessment.
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Dennis L. Christiansen
Dr. Christiansen is agency director of the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI), a member of the Texas A&M University System. TTI is a state agency and the largest and most comprehensive higher education-affiliated transportation research center in the United States. With extensive research experience in traffic operations, transportation planning, and transit planning, Dr. Christiansen is an international expert in high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. He was one of the pioneers of the HOV lane concept in Houston and had significant involvement in its development and implementation. His research in HOV lanes has been utilized throughout the country and has made a significant impact on the effectiveness of the transportation system in Texas and elsewhere.
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David Ford
Dr. Ford is an associate professor in the Construction Engineering and Management program in Texas A&M University's Department of Civil Engineering. His research interests include construction as a product development process, project management process design, concurrence, project resource allocation policies, and system dynamics. In addition to his tenure at Texas A&M, Dr. Ford serves as an adjunct professor of research in the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, and has served as an associate professor in the Department of Information Science, University of Bergen, Norway; adjunct professor, School of Technology Management and Economics, Chalmers University of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden; and instructor, Mikkeli Polytechnic Institute of Technology, Mikkeli, Finland.
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Timothy J. Gronberg
Dr. Gronberg is a professor in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University. His primary field of specialization is public finance and his secondary field is urban and spatial economics. He is a Research Fellow of the Private Enterprise Research Center, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and a research affiliate of the National Center on Performance Incentives.
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Robert Harriss
Robert Harriss is president and CEO of the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC). His professional interests focus on sustainability science, engineering, education, and policy. He was formerly senior scientist and director of the Institute for the Study of Society and the Environment at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO.
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Melvin J. Hinich
Dr. Hinich is the Mike Hogg Professor of Government and professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a research professor at the Applied Research Laboratories of the University of Texas. Dr. Hinich has a long record of distinction in a number of fields. He has published papers in the fields of statistics, signal processing, economics, political science, biomedical engineering, pharmacy, and library science. His signal processing papers deal with a variety of applications from geophysics to finance. He has also made contributions in the policy area of food regulation and has coauthored a book on food regulation.
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Bryan D. Jones
Dr. Jones holds the J.J. Pickle Chair in Congressional Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas. He studies political decision-making and American public policy processes at both the national and local levels. Professor Jones' recent books include The Politics of Bad Ideas (co-authored with Walt Williams, Longman, 2007), The Politics of Attention (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, Chicago, 2005), Politics and the Architecture of Choice (Chicago, 2001), Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics (Chicago, 1994), and Agendas and Instability in American Politics (co-authored with Frank Baumgartner, Chicago, 1993).
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Paul M. Kellstedt
Dr. Kellstedt is an associate professor and director of the American Politics Program in the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. His fields of expertise are American politics and methodology. Prior to joining the Texas A&M University faculty, Dr. Kellstedt taught at Brown University and the University of Minnesota. He was an academic visitor at Nuffield College, Oxford, in 2008, and a Harvard University Fellow in the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government in 1999.
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Mark N. Lubell
Dr. Lubell is an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy at the University of California, Davis. He studies collective-action problems in theory, lab, and field settings using quantitative and qualitative empirical methods.
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John W. Nielsen-Gammon
Dr. Nielsen-Gammon is a professor of meteorology and Texas State Climatologist in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M University. The Office of the State Climatologist for Texas is a component of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the Texas Center for Climate Studies (TCCS). Dr. Nielsen-Gammon's research group uses a combination of observational and numerical techniques to study the characteristics, dynamics, and forecastability of particular weather phenomena. For large-scale phenomena, Nielsen-Gammon has pioneered the application of various techniques involving potential vorticity and nonlinear balance. Much of Dr. Nielsen-Gammon's recent work has involved air pollution meteorology.
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Gerald R. North
Gerald R. North is distinguished professor of meteorology and of oceanography, holder of the Harold J. Haynes Endowed Chair in Geosciences at Texas A&M University, and former head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas A&M. Prior to his tenure at Texas A&M, he was a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, a senior visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and a scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. At Goddard, he was the initial proposer and first study scientist for the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission. North's research investigates climate change and determines its origins. Most of his recent work has been on estimating the strengths of forced response signals in the climate system over the last century.
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Walter Gillis Peacock
Dr. Peacock is a professor of urban planning in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and the Sustainable Coastal Margins Program. He also serves as director of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. His research interests include urban planning, sustainable community development, natural hazard, hazard mitigation, long-term recovery, and quantitative methods. Dr. Peacock has written or co-authored two books and a host of articles.
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James R. Rogers
Dr. Rogers is an associate professor of political science and department head of the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University. He also serves as editor of the Journal of Theoretical Politics. Dr. Rogers' research considers how institutions interact in separation-of-power systems with a focus on the role of courts in those systems, and examines how courts and other institutions mutually construct their decision-making environment and the reciprocal influence that the institutions have on each other.
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David V. Rosowsky
Dr. Rosowsky is professor of Civil Engineering and Dean of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y.
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Joel D. Scheraga
Dr. Scheraga is the national program director for the Global Change Research Program and the Mercury Research Program in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development. Dr. Scheraga is responsible for managing a $20 million Global Change Research Program, a $4 million Mercury Research Program, and over 50 personnel in five laboratories and centers. He is also the EPA principal representative to the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP), which coordinates and integrates scientific research supported by the U.S. government on climate and global change.
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B. Dan Wood
Dr. Wood is a professor of political science at Texas A&M University and a College of Liberal Arts Cornerstone Fellow for 2008-2012. He was a Texas A&M University Faculty Fellow for 2002-2006. His research evaluates the relative responsiveness of political institutions to democratic influence. Most recently, he has focused on the presidency. However, past work has also considered bureaucracies, Congress, the Supreme Court, the mass media, and public opinion. Dr. Wood was listed in the January 2007 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics as among the 400 most cited political scientists since 1940.
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Sammy Zahran
Dr. Zahran is an assistant professor at Colorado State University. Prior to joining the faculty at Colorado State, Dr. Zahran was a post-doctoral research scientist with the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy. Dr. Zahran is also a Research Fellow with the Environmental Planning and Sustainability Research Unit in the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center at Texas A&M University and a Faculty Fellow with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center.
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