Jean-Michel Guldmann is a Professor Emeritus of City and Regional Planning at the Ohio State University. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and a Masters in Industrial Engineering from the Ecole des Mines, Nancy, France. His research focuses on the quantitative modeling of urban structures, energy and telecommunications infrastructures, environmental planning, the urban heat island, and disaster mitigation. He has published a book and 104 articles and book chapters on these issues. He has advised 31 Ph.D. students.