Kyle Pfeiffer is the Manager of the National Preparedness Analytics group within the Decision and Infrastructure Sciences Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
He is an expert source on the use of social media by the public and government institutions in times of crisis. He can also speak on the following topics...
- Emergency and Disaster Preparedness Planning and Analysis
- Human Behavior and Risk and Crisis Communications
- Disaster Logisitcs
- Risk Analytics
Pfeiffer leads a multidisciplinary team of national and homeland security professionals conducting applied research to strengthen the security and resilience of people, assets, and systems to an array of global threats and hazards.
Pfeiffer leads Argonne’s support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Resilience, Response, and Recovery components. He is also the principal investigator for projects with the Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response and supports work with the Department of Homeland Security’s National Protection and Programs Directorate. He is temporarily assigned to FEMA Headquarters in Washington D.C. as an advisor for the revision of the National Response Framework.
Pfeiffer maintains a joint appointment with Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems where he conducts research on the resilience of food, energy, and water systems.
Prior to joining Argonne, Kyle spent several years as an emergency management consultant—most recently as part of the Justice and Homeland Security team at Booz Allen Hamilton. He also spent four years as an Emergency Medical Technician in Maine working for hospital-based, university-based, and private ambulance services.
Kyle has a BA in Political Science, a MA in Emergency and Disaster Management, and a Master of Criminal Justice. He is also a certified Associate Business Continuity Professional (ABCP).
Links:
Argonne profile: https://www.anl.gov/profile/kyle-burke-pfeiffer
Local supply chains: The disaster management perspective - https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/sse-volumes/7/3/1886
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