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Brian A. Jackson is a senior physical scientist at RAND. His research focuses on homeland security, criminal justice, and emergency preparedness. His areas of research have included security planning and violence prevention for educational institutions, technology and policy innovation in criminal justice, futuring work around emerging technologies, emergency preparedness planning and evaluation, and design of policy and preparedness games and table-top exercises. Jackson's nonstate violence-focused research has examined organizational learning by terrorist groups, nonstate violent groups' use of technology, terrorism and targeted violence prevention, development of assessment methods for novel terrorist threats, and exploration of strategies to respond to terrorist targeting of national economies.
Jackson's recent key publications include articles in American Journal of Criminal Justice, the Journal of Air Transport Management, Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, and Terrorism and Political Violence, as well as many RAND reports.
Jackson received his Ph.D. in bioinorganic chemistry from the California Institute of Technology and his M.A. in science, technology, and public policy from The George Washington University.
Ph.D. in bioinorganic chemistry, California Institute of Technology; M.A. in science, technology, and public policy, The George Washington University; B.S. in chemistry, Haverford College
