Eric Landree

Biography

Eric Landree is an engineer at the RAND Corporation. He has contributed to projects dealing with national security, emerging technologies, and economic development and innovation. In 2007, he completed a study on survivability and protection of U.S. military vehicles operating in urban settings. He is also involved in a series of projects on science and technology (S&T) strategic planning and on assessing the contribution of S&T discoveries and innovations to societal outcomes. In 2005 and 2006, he organized workshops for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in which participants from government, industry, academia, nongovernment organizations, labor unions, and insurers discussed occupational safety and health concerns related to nanomaterials. Landree recently co-led a project for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that studied information about U.S. counter- and antiterrorism capabilities publicly available through sources such as the Internet. Prior to joining RAND, Landree participated in the American Association for the Advancement of Science's Defense Science & Technology Policy Fellowship Program in the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Director, Defense Research and Engineering, where he coordinated and assisted the DoD's S&T strategic planning in information assurance and critical infrastructure protection. In 1998, he joined the National Institute of Science and Technology as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, conducting experiments at Brookhaven National Laboratory on developing analytical techniques for analyzing dielectric ultrathin films used in semiconductors and integrated circuits. Landree received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University.