Brian Tomaszewski

Brian Tomaszewski Ph.D., is a geographic information scientist with research interests in

the domains of geographic information science and technology, geographic

visualization, spatial thinking, disaster management, and refugee affairs. His published

research on geographic information systems (GIS) and disaster management related

topics has appeared in top scientific journals and conferences such as Information

Visualization, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, Computers and

Geosciences, the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, the IEEE

Conference on Global Humanitarian Technology, and The Cartographic Journal. He also

regularly publishes in popular GIS trade magazines such as ArcUser and ArcNews. He is

the author of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Disaster Management published

2014 by CRC Press and which is one of the first book‐length treatments on the topic. He

is actively involved in international disaster management and refugee affairs research

with research projects funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) in Germany

and Jordan as well as collaborations with the United Nations High Commissioner for

Refugees (UNHCR) in Rwanda and Jordan. He is an adjunct professor with the Centre for

Disaster Management and Mitigation at the Vellore Institute of Technology, India and is

an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies at

the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY USA.