Speakers

Dr. Maria KAMARGIANNI is a Lecturer in Transport and Energy and the Head of the MaaSLab (Mobility-as-a-Service Lab) at the UCL Energy Institute. She holds a PhD in Travel Behaviour Modelling and Decision Science, and a MSc. in Shipping, Trade and Transport form the University of the Aegean, and a BSc in Business Administration from the University of Macedonia. Her areas of research include travel behaviour, new mobility services, mobility-as-a-service (MaaS), transportation demand modelling, transportation systems analysis, market research and econometrics. She has extensive experience in survey design, sampling design, big data handling, data mining and modelling combined revealed and stated preferences discrete choice models, as well as latent variable models in which the attitudes and perceptions of decision makers are taken into account in the choice process. She has widely published in the academic and professional literature. She is the Principal Investigator of several national and international projects.

Dr. Kamargianni for her research and the methodologies she developed, has received some of the most outstanding awards worldwide in the transport sector, such as: 1. the Bronze medal in the pan-European contest for early stage researchers (by the Transport Research Arena; Brussels, 2010), 2. the Best Student Paper Award in Choice Modelling ( by the Elsevier Journal of Choice Modelling; Sydney, 2013), and 3. the Ryuichi Kitamura Best Paper Award in Travel Analysis Methods (by the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine – Transportation Research Board; Washington DC, 2014). Dr. Kamargianni is a member in several conference standing committees, such as the Transport Research Board (TRB), International Association of Travel Behaviour (IATBR), World Conference in Transport Research (WCTR).

She is also a board member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Travel Spirit Foundation, Financial Times – Future Transport Summit, and the UCL Transport Institute. She works closely with the public sector and industry to transfer the research results to the real world. She has also been included in the list with the Top-10 MaaS influencers in the world.