Mr. Simkins is an economist with a background in applied microeconomics, behavioral economics, emergent simulation modeling, and game theory applications.  He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Masters in Applied Economics from the University of North Carolina Greensboro.  He has worked at Battelle for the past 4 years with a wide variety of government and commercial clients on projects ranging from the economic impacts of terrorism attacks to simulations of population health care behaviors.  He specializes in developing predictive models to assess a wide variety of different economic questions with his primary areas of work centering around modeling of disaster response scenarios, analysis of health economics issues, and creating models of consumer and firm behaviors.