Biography: Gavan Lintern

Gavan Lintern earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Psychology from the University of Illinois in 1978 and M.A. and B.A. degrees in experimental psychology from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1971 and 1969 respectively. He has worked in aviation-related human factors research at the Defense Science and Technology Organisation (formerly known as the Aeronautical Research Laboratories),
Melbourne (1971-1974), and in flight simulation research on a US Navy program in Orlando, Florida (1978-1985). He returned to the University of Illinois in 1985 to take up a position as a faculty member at the Institute of Aviation (1985-1997). He has subsequently filled positions as head of human factors at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation in Melbourne (1997-2001), senior scientist with
Aptima, Inc. in Boston (2001-2003) and chief scientist with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Dayton, Ohio (2003-2009).