ABOUT

Dr. John E. Thomas is a Scholar in Residence with the Engineering Management Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and Executive Director of Resilience Engineering Institute. Dr. Thomas is a resilience engineering scholar with over 25 years of professional experience that includes wireless communications, software, semiconductors, defense radar, and consumer electronics industries. John’s research explores the dynamic relationships between human resilience, psychological development, and the resilience of complex socio-technical systems like critical infrastructure including energy, water, transportation, communications and cyber-security. Areas of research focus include the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions, capacities, and adaptive processes impacting how humans interact with and depend on technological systems. John holds Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration, with Honors, from Santa Clara University. In 2017, he earned a Ph.D. in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering in the School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Review Dr. Thomas’ CV.