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Vanderbilt University

Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Environmental Engineering Transportation Engineering Risk Management Safety Engineering

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Mark Abkowitz is a Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Professor of Engineering Management at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, where he has been on the faculty since 1991. He serves as Director of the Vanderbilt Center for Environmental Management Studies. Abkowitz earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974, followed by an M.S. in 1976 and a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering with a focus on Transportation in 1980, also from MIT. Throughout his career, he has held significant leadership roles, including Chairman of Visual Risk Technologies, Inc. from 1999 to 2007, Presidential appointee to the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board from 2002 to 2011, and Chairman of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Hazardous Materials Transport from 1990 to 1996, with continued membership until 2012. He has also contributed to numerous National Research Council committees and reviews, such as the Committee on Disposal of Transuranic Waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and reports on spent nuclear fuel transportation.