Prof. Brian Fath

Brian D. Fath is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Towson University, Maryland, USA. He teaches courses in ecosystem ecology, environmental biology, networks, and human ecology and sustainability. He has also taught courses on ecological networks and modeling in Austria, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and South Africa. He has held Fulbright Distinguished Chair positions at Parthenope University of Naples, Italy (2012) and Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic (2019). Fath is also a Principal Research Scholar in IIASA's Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group of the Advancing Systems Analysis (ASA) Program. His work at IIASA contributes to ASA activities in environmental systems modeling, specifically in the area of network analysis of social-ecological systems. In addition, he has been serving as the YSSP Scientific Coordinator since 2011.