James B. Kadtke, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow

Dr. James Kadtke holds a B.S. in Mathematics and and a B.S. in Physics from Penn State University. He also holds a Certificate in Science Policy from Penn State University. In addtion, he holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University.

Dr. Kadtke received his PhD in physics in the areas of chaos, complexity, information science, and computational methods applied to defense problems. After a graduate fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory, he spent over ten years as a faculty at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in the national security division.

He has additionally served as a corporate officer, independent consultant, and program and research reviewer on defense science and engineering projects and for various professional journals.

From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Kadtke was a policy analyst in the Rand Science and Technology Policy institute, focusing on developing new methodologies to apply nonlinear science and complexity to policy analysis. From 2001 to 2002, he served as a staff member and policy analyst on the Science Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 2002 to 2006, he served as the science advisor on the staff of Senator John Warner of Virginia, and as a designee on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

In addition to his CTNSP appointment, he currently serves as a Adjunct Professor of Technology, Defense, and Homeland Security at the School for National Security Executive Education at NDU, and as an adjunct faculty at the Critical Infrastructure Protection Program at George Mason University.