Igor Linkov is a senior risk assessor with ICF Consulting, Inc. He has more than ten years of experience in performing high-quality ecological and human health risk assessments, as well as environmental investigations of contaminated sites in the United States and worldwide. Dr. Linkov's expertise includes ecological risk assessment for aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, the study of contaminated sediments, technical support for the management of dredged sediments, probabilistic risk assessment modeling, toxicology, and biostatistics.
Prior to joining ICF/Arthur D. Little, Dr. Linkov was a senior scientist at Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc., where he conducted environmental risk assessments and supported the USACE Dredging Operation and Environmental Research Program. While at Harvard University, he investigated the carcinogenic potencies of chemicals for risk-based regulatory policies and applied Bayesian updating methodology for fate and transport modeling. Currently, Dr. Linkov is developing
software for environmental modeling and risk assessment. His current research interests include probabilistic modeling and spatially explicit risk assessment, as well as the development of risk-based approaches to support remedial policy
decisions.
Dr. Linkov received his M.S. in physics and mathematics from Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie-Mellon University, and his Ph.D., in environmental, occupational, and radiation health, from the University
of Pittsburgh. In 1998, he received a science and technology award from the Japan Science and Technology Center in order to work at the National Institute of Radiological Sciences. Dr. Linkov has served as a scientific reviewer for the Environmental
Protection Agency, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, the European Commission, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and eight scientific journals. He has published three books and over fifty peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.