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Tom Logan is a Senior Lecturer Above the Bar in the Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Canterbury. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours in Natural Resources Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Canterbury, a Master of Science in Geography and Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2015, and a PhD in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2019. Prior to his academic career, Logan received the Fulbright NZ Science and Innovation Graduate Award. He joined the University of Canterbury as a Lecturer in Civil Systems Engineering in 2019, advancing to Senior Lecturer in 2023. Additionally, he is a 2023 Rutherford Discovery Fellow awarded by the Royal Society Te Apārangi and serves as Co-Director of the University's Cluster for Community and Urban Resilience.
Logan's research specializes in the risk to and resilience of urban systems amid climate change, employing advanced risk analysis, geospatial modeling, and statistical methods to capture cascading and indirect effects of hazards. His projects support adaptation planning, including collaborations with Christchurch City Council on flood risk assessment and the Ministry for the Environment. Key publications include "The x-minute city: Measuring the 10, 15, 20-minute city and an evaluation of its use for sustainable urban design" (Cities, 2022), "Parks and safety: A comparative study of green space access and inequity in five US cities" (Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020), "Night and day: The influence and relative importance of urban characteristics on remotely sensed land surface temperature" (Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020), and "Risk science offers an integrated approach to resilience" (Nature Sustainability, 2022). Logan has earned recognition such as the top dissertation award in his PhD department at Michigan and the American Association of Geographers Student Paper Award. He holds leadership roles as President of the Australia New Zealand Chapter of the Society for Risk Analysis and Chair of its Foundations of Risk Analysis Specialty Group, contributing to the field through committee service.
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