Dr. Paul Kirshen

Paul Kirshen is currently Research Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, at Tufts University. He is co-chair and co-founder of the Water: Systems, Science, and Society (WSSS) Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education Program at Tufts and co-founder and Steering Committee member of the Mystic Watershed Collaborative.

Dr. Kirshen conducts research in developed and developing countries in integrated water resources management, climate change impacts and adaptation, water resources operations, decision support systems and urban water systems. His teaching concentrations include water resources engineering and integrated water resources management.

Dr. Kirshen holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His past experience includes extensive work in the private sector as a program manager, principal engineer and consultant. Before joining the private sector, he taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Dartmouth College.

Throughout his career, Dr. Kirshen has provided expertise in a range of water resources fields, including global climate change and water resources, watershed/river basin planning and analysis, water quality assessment, decision support systems, water resources engineering, policy analysis, hydropower systems, hydrology, optimization and simulation modeling, and global water issues.

Dr. Kirshen’s publication credits consist of contributions to six books and numerous periodicals, such as Water International and the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, and Climatic Change. As the UCOWR Fellow at IWR, he participated in the Shared Vision Planning study on the Connecticut River.

More about Dr. Kirshen

More about the UCOWR Water Resources Fellowship