Mitchell Erickson Email & Phone Number

Usa

Scientific Consultant on technology futures, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), persistent organic environmental pollutants (POPs).Primary Focus: Technology trends representing societal opportunities/threats as related to national safety/security. Expertise in persistent organic pollutants, especially PCBs, PCDDs and PCDFs, including sampling, analysis, presence, partition, and transport in environmental, biological, industrial product, and human matrices.

Piscataway, Nj

New York

• Provided scientific perspectives on technology forecasting, horizon scanning, futurology; developed the DHS “LookOut Tech List” – 2017-2019.• Focused on technology forecasting: Which trends represent opportunities/threats to society, markets, and homeland security? Developed government agency (CENTCOM, FEMA, PANYNJ), corporate, & university partnerships to leverage technologies.• Assessed and reported to leadership on homeland security threats and opportunities posed by autonomous vehicles that can be used in an attack by a terrorist; also promising to mitigate emergency services’ work with a dramatic reduction in crashes.• Built & managed S&T Bridge Innovation Portal that scans technology horizon, curates alerts (avg. 40/month), & analyzes trends (ontology: 500+ terms).• Scientific subject-matter expert for developing SAGE (Science Advisory Guide for Emergencies)—a senior leadership playbook covering 30+ nationwide emergency scenarios. Architected scientific structure & managed exercises.• Represented DHS on Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force-Science Coordination Group. Contributed to the 2013 Report to the President

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ.Academic and research contributions to the New Jersey Center for Public Health Preparedness and other centers and departments within the School of Public Health. Developed and co-taught “Public Health Preparedness I: Agents of Mass Injury or Destruction” (ENOH0697 Fall 2007-2009).

New York, Ny.

• Responsibilities: Strategic planning, technical quality, productivity, marketing, program development, human resources, budget, union relations. Managed transition from DOE to new DHS after the nearby World Trade Center attacks on 11 September 2001.• Developed, deployed, evaluated instrumentation & technology systems measuring radiation and radioactive substances for US Department of Energy nuclear complex environmental cleanup.• Managed radioactive fallout sampling/analysis networks in sensitive international hotspots.• Post-9/11, test and evaluation for NYPD as they equipped officers with thousands of personal radiation detectors.

Conducted research and development (R&D) projects for characterization of the environment aimed at improving radioanalytical methods for faster and cheaper routine methods. These methods involved determining technetium-99, strontium-99, actinides, and radium, and implementing solid scintillation beta counters and ICP/MS for detection, and applications of flow-injection analysis for automation. Also evaluated, designed and tested sensors and samplers for subsurface monitoring, especially cone penetrometer interfaces. Provided technical contributions on PCBs, PCDDs, PCDFs and other environmental pollutants.Contracting Officer's Technical Representative on environmental research projects.Supervised analytical laboratory.

Phd, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Sailing ClubPhD in Analytical Chemistry Research into drug structures and pesticide metabolism

Ab, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Swimming, Graduation PlanningAB in chemistry. Research in organometallic compounds using NMR