Dr. John R. Hummel received his B.S. degree in Engineering Science with Honors Option (1973), a M.S. in Meteorology from Penn State in 1975 and a PhD in Atmospheric Science from the University of Michigan (1978). Following his PhD, he was employed until 1981 in the Physics Department at the General Motors Research Laboratory conducting climate research, including evaluations of the greenhouse effect impacts of proposed freon gas replacements and carbon dioxide. From 1981 to 1988, he worked at OptiMetrics, Inc. and from 1988 and 1994 at SPARTA, Inc. on programs analyzing the impacts of environmental processes on military systems and operations.

Since 1994, Dr. Hummel has worked at the Argonne National Laboratory supporting a variety of advanced simulation programs. Currently, he is the Director of the Advanced Simulation Technologies Center in the Decision and Information Sciences Division at Argonne. In this role, he is directing the development of advanced simulation technologies that are addressing a variety of problems in areas such as logistics; environmental representations; and the impacts of environmental, agricultural, and social interactions on ancient, developing, and modern societies.

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