Dr. Frank Fiedrich, Ph.D.

Institute for Crisis, Disaster, and Risk Management
The George Washington University
1776 G. St., N.W. (Suite 101)
Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: +1 (202) 994 2379
Fax: +1 (202) 994 0245
Email:fiedrich@gwu.edu

by appointment only

• Catastrophic event planning
• Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for emergency management
• Group decision making and inter-organizational response in complex emergencies
• GIS in disaster response
• Damage and loss estimation Models
• Artificial Intelligence with applications to emergency response systems
• Agent-based decision support systems for disaster response
• Distributed simulation systems (High Level Architecure HLA)
• Virtual disaster response training
• Early warning systems

•  EMSE 233 Information Technology in Crisis and Emergency Management
•  EMSE 248 Geographic Information Systems for Emergency Management
•  EMSE 256 Information Management and Information Systems

•  Assistant Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
•  Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.), Karlsruhe University, Germany
•  MIE (Dipl.-Wi.-Ing.), Karlsruhe University, Germany

• Projects
  • FEMA Catastrophic Event Planning for the New Madrid Seismic Zone (2006 to present)
  • Development of models for emergency planning and response (shelter, health care, etc.)
  • Vulnerabilty analysis of populations at risk
  • Developing and Beta-testing an electronic platform for the Public Health and Medical Volunteer Management System (2006-2007)
  • Development of a web-based volunteer management system for public health and medical volunteers
  • Investigation of the commercialisation potential of the system
• International Community on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM)
  • Program chair of the 5th International Confenrence on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management ISCRAM2008
  • Program committee (since 2005)
  • Track co-chair "Intelligent systems" (since 2005)
  • Member of the Award Committee for the best ph.D. student paper (since 2006)
• Research Associate, Karlsruhe University
  • Project "Disaster Management: Models and Simulation" of the Collaborative Research Center Strong Earthquakes
  • GIS-based earthquake damage estimation in urban areas
  • Earthquake early warning systems
  • Scientific program design and curriculum developement of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate College Natural Disasters

Personal list of publications