Professor Jean-Claude Thill Named RSAI Fellow

November 18, 2013
Categories: College of Humanities & Earth and Social Sciences, Honors & Awards
Jean-Claude Thill

Jean-Claude Thill, the Knight Foundation Distinguished Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at UNC Charlotte, has been named a 2013 Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). He received this honor at the 60th Annual North American Meetings of the RSAI in Atlanta, Georgia in mid-September, 2013. He is the sole U.S. regional scientist to be recognized this year, along with scholars from Japan, Sweden and Italy. Worldwide, RSAI has a cadre of 70 Fellows.

RSAI Fellows are distinguished scholars with path-breaking records of research and publications on regional science. To be named RSAI Fellows, scholars must be nominated and have received international scientific recognition. RSAI is an international community of scholars interested in the regional impacts of national or global processes of economic and social change.

UNC Charlotte earlier this month named Thill to lead Project Mosaic, an initiative to enhance its social and behavioral science research. Thill is editor-in-chief of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, and the area editor-in-charge of Geographic Information Science of Networks and Spatial Economics, American editor of the International Journal of Society Systems Science and associate editor of Geographical Analysis.

He is president of the Regional Science Association International. He also is involved in the Center for Transportation Policy Studies as an assistant director; the Infrastructure, Design, Environment and Sustainability (IDEAS) Center as theme leader in sustainable infrastructure; and the Center for Applied GIScience. He is the 2012 recipient of the Edward L. Ullman Award for Significant Contributions to Transportation Geography, awarded by the Association of American Geographers. He also has received the Hirotada Kohno Award for Outstanding Service of the Regional Science Association International in 2012.  Professor Thill joined the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2006.