Dr. Anthony Masys
Biography:
Dr. Anthony J. Masys has a PhD (Social Sciences) from University of Leicester, a Master of Science (Underwater Acoustics and Oceanography) and a Bachelor of Science (Physics) from the Royal Military College of Canada.
He is sessional faculty at University Canada West teaching Business Environment, Ethics & Strategy. His teaching philosophy emphasizes the importance of not only critical thinking but also integrative thinking in fostering a more holistic or systemic perspective of problem spaces. It challenges traditional notion of failure and replaces it with a growth mindset where students are encouraged to stretch and develop themselves.
Expertise and Experience
Dr. Masys is a senior defence scientist with the Centre for Security Science, Defence R&D Canada, Department of National Defence, served as scientific advisor to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and is a Visiting Professor with the International Centre for Policing and Security at the University of South Wales. He’s also an Affiliate Associate Professor and former Director of Global Disaster Management, Humanitarian Assistance and Homeland Security at the University of South Florida. Dr. Masys is also CEO and President of Anomaly Solutions (A Think and Do Tank).
Publications and Scholarly Activity
Dr. Masys has conducted research, lectures and workshops across five continents working with various security and public safety stakeholders to better understand global disasters and design resilience strategies for security and public safety.
Dr. Masys is Editor-in-Chief of Springer Series: 'Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications'. He has published extensively in the domains of physics and the social sciences. His books include:
- ‘Opening the Black Box of Human Error’
- Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security
- Disaster Management- Enabling Resilience
- From Problem Framing to Problem Solving: Applications of Systems Thinking and Soft Operations Research for managing complexity
- Exploring the security landscape: non-traditional security challenges
- Disaster Forensics: understanding root cause and complex causality
- Asia/Pacific Security Challenges: Managing Black Swans and Persistent Threats
- Security by Design
- Global Health Security
- Science Informed Policing
- Sensemaking for Security
- Handbook of Security Science (forthcoming in 2022)
- Handbook of Foresight, Strategy and Future Studies for Defence and Security (forthcoming in 2022)
His research interests focus on crisis leadership, safety and security culture, policing and security, terrorism/counter-terrorism studies, global health security, disaster forensics, risk, crisis and disaster management, resilience, systems thinking, scenario planning, human security, complex socio-technical system analysis, modeling and simulation, and action research.
For more information, visit his website at anthonymasys.com.
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