Disruption, Ideation and Innovation for Defence and Security / Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications (PDF)

Dr Anthony Masys is Associate Professor, Strategic Area Lead for Interdisciplinary Science and Practice and Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security. A former senior Air Force Officer, he has a B.Sc. in Physics and M.Sc. in Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Ph.D. from the University of Leicester. He is Editor in Chief for Springer Publishing book series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications and holds various advisory board positions with academic journals and books series. He is an internationally recognized author, speaker and facilitator and has held workshops on security, visual thinking, design thinking and systems thinking in Europe, Canada, South America, West Africa and Asia. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. His recent books include:







· Opening the Black Box of Human Error



· Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security. Springer Publishing



· Disaster Management- Enabling Resilience. Springer Publishing



· Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research for managing complexity. Springer Publishing



· Exploring the Security Landscape- non-traditional security challenges. Springer Publishing.



· Disaster Forensics: understanding root cause and complexity causality. Springer Publishing



· Asia/Pacific Security challenges: managing black swans and persistent threats. Springer Publishing



· Security by Design



· Global Health Security







Dr Gitanjali Adlakha-Hutcheon is Defence Scientist in the Department of National Defence in Canada. Dr Gitanjali Adlakha-Hutcheon has a B.Sc. in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology and M.Sc. in Biochemistry and Microbiology and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Therapeutics from the University of British