The Director of HIT, Evangelos Bekiaris, is a PhD Mechanical Engineer of the National Technical University of Athens, former Research Director (Grade A Researcher) and former Head of the sector “Driver & Vehicle”. He has participated in over 100 research projects up to date, in 35 of which has led all the research consortium. His field of expertise covers issues of road safety, clean vehicles, smart grid applications, specialized telematics applications for vehicles, public transport and maritime transport. He has also profound experience in accessible transportation and personalized services for disabled people and elderly.

He has been/is:

• Editor and co-author in 6 scientific books and with 68 publications in international scientific journals and 252 presentations in international conferences.
• National Representative for the HORIZON 2020, Smart, Green and Integrated Transport Programme Committee.
• Vice-President of the European Association for Battery, Hybrid and Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (AVERE - www.avere.org) from 2014 until today.
• President of the European Association HUMANIST European Centre of Excellence in Human Machine Interaction (HMI) in Transport (www.humanist-vce.eu  ) from 2012 until 2015.
• Chairman of the Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI - www.fersi.org) from 2008 until 2011.
• Board member of the Hellenic Researchers Union, from 2012 until 2015.
• Editor-in-Chief of the European Transport Research Review – An Open Access Journal (ETRR) of Springer.
• Visiting Professor in Transport Telematics at the Mechanical Engineering department of University of Trento (Italy), as well as visiting Professor, at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
• He has also teached Transport Telematics in a Master course of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) from 2003 to 2011. 
  

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Mr. George A. Giannopoulos is Director of the Hellenic Institute of Transport of the National Center for Research and Technological Development (CERTH) since its founding in 2000 and member of its Board of Directors since then and Vice-president since November 2008. Since August 2010 he is President of the CERTH and Director of its Central Administration.

Until July 2010 he was professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where he was Director of the Laboratory of Transport Engineering for 20 years, and Director of the Postgraduate course on Transport Systems for 10 years.

He studied civil engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (Diploma of civil engineering) and Transportation Planning and Engineering at Imperial College University of London (PhD, DIC, and M.Sc degrees).

Since 1989 he is continuously representing Greece in various Committees, working groups, and other bodies of the EU (indicatively: the DRIVE and the Advanced Transport Telematics programme in the 90s, the ISTAG, SST, ERTRAC, and EIRAC, more recently). Since 2008 he is chair of the Transport Advisory Group of DG RTD and MOVE.

He has been deputy of the Greek Minister of Transport at the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (today International Transport Forum – ITF of the OECD), and head of Greece s delegation for the negotiations between Greece and the European Economic Community for Greece’s entry as a member.

In 1997 he founded, and was until 2004 chairman, of the South East European Transport Research Forum (SETREF) an international non-governmental Organization devoted to promoting transport research in South East Europe, with more than 30 organizations members in 12 countries of the area.

He is founding member and first President (for 2003 – 2007) of the European Conference of Transport research Institutes ( ECTRI) an Organization with 27 members – major European Transport Research Organizations established in almost all European countries.

He has been awarded several international distinctions among which:

1. Honorary PhD of the University of Kingston, London, UK.
2. Certificate of Appreciation from the US Transportation Research Board (US Academy of Sciences).
3. Personality of the year (2006) award from the Network of Black Sea Universities.

He is the author of more than 150 publications in scientific magazines, and of 10 books 2 of which in English.

Areas of interest / expertise: Transport Planning, Transport Policy, Freight transport / logistics, public transport systems, and ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) applications.

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Civil Engineering specializing in Designing and Management of Transport Systems. Postgraduate Studies in Informatics, University of PARIS VII and Transportation Planning and Engineering of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausees. PhD thesis on the «Implementation of expert systems and techniques on fleet routing and scheduling problems of transport fleets». Civil Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Professional and research expertise in the following sections: Traffic Management, Transport Systems Management, Use of Telematics Applications in: Maritime, Road and Combined Transport, GIS, Vehicle Fleet Management, Operations Research and in Road Safety.

Her professional experience covers a wide range in studies with subjects relate to maritime transports, port infrastructure management, new technologies application for maritime transportation systems’ management emphasizing on the safety and reduction of environmental impacts.

She has been working on different European research projects related to new technology application for transport chains management and control (included intermodal transport) and was responsible for system functionalities specifications, pilot implementation, evaluation and acted as project coordinator for various Greek Transportation (road, maritime, combined transports) Studies.

She has written over 30 scientific papers that have been published in Greek and foreign magazines and were presented in Greek and international conferences.

Finally, she was Managing Director of a private company in the field of Transportation and Vice-President of the Hellenic Institute of Transportation Engineers during 1994-1996.

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Dr. Maria P. Boile is Research Director at the Hellenic Institute for Transportation (HIT), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) and Director of HIT’s Athens Office. She received her diploma in Civil Engineering with specialization in Transportation Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1990, M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Rutgers University in 1992, and Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 1995.

Prior to joining HIT Dr. Boile held appointments as Associate Professor of transportation in the Department Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) at Rutgers University since 2007, co-Director of the Freight and Maritime Program (FMP) at the Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT) since 2005, and academic fellow in the Center for Supply Chain Management of the Rutgers School of Business since 2005. She also served as Assistant professor in the CEE department at Rutgers University (2000-2007), Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Lafayette College (1995 – 2000) and Visiting Assistant Professor with the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering and National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity, New Jersey Institute of Technology.

Dr. Boile’s areas of research and interest include passenger and freight intermodal network modeling, freight logistics, freight and maritime systems analysis, port and inland terminal operations, transit scheduling and operations. She has participated in over 50 sponsored research projects, as a principal investigator in 30 of them. Her research has been funded by the European Commission programs as well as by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, NJ DOT, NYSDOT, PennDOT, New York Metropolitan Transportation Council.

She has authored and co-authored over 150 scientific journal and conference articles, reports and book chapters. Dr. Boile has received several honors and awards, has been a member of two editorial advisory boards and is serving as a reviewer to eight international journals. She is a member of several professional societies, serves as a member on various committees and scientific and professional boards, and has been an invited expert by the US Department of Transportation and the European Commission. She is a member of the Eno Transportation Foundation’s Board of Regents.

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Dr. Maria Panou is currently holding a position as a Principal Researcher and Head of Department ‘Vehicle & Driver – Transport Safety – Accessibility’ at the Hellenic Institute of Transport of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. She has a PhD on Personalised ADAS warnings for drivers and infomobility services for travellers. Her main fields of expertise are innovative technologies for road safety and mobility in transport, ADAS warning algorithms, HMI and C-ITS applications, Transportation technologies for elderly and persons with special needs, innovative simulation training tools for driving simulators ICT for all.

She has strong experience in managerial and supervisory tasks as she has acted as Coordinator/technical manager in successful projects of the 6th & 7th FP, as well as ongoing H2020 projects.

She is a Member of the Editorial Board of the ETRR Journal (European Transport Research Review – An Open Access Journal) of ECTRI.

She holds numerous publications in scientific journals and books, as well as international conferences.  Full CV

Dr. Maria Morfoulaki is an Operational Scientist A’, working at CERTH-HIT since 2001. She is the head of the Laboratory “Demand and Mobility Management and Development of Sustainable Mobility Systems” of HIT. She is a Transportation Engineer having a great experience on Transportation Planning Models, Public Transport Operational and Quality issues and Urban Sustainable Transport issues.

She obtained her diploma as a Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1995, while in 2004 she presented her Ph.D in the field of Public Transport Quality Measures. In 2010 she acquired her MSc diploma on Systems’ Simulation from the University of Thessaly.

Her professional experience covers a wide range of studies and research programs with subjects related to urban mobility issues, traffic management, transportation master plans, transportation planning using simulation analysis and transportation systems’ management emphasizing on the quality, the safety and the reduction of environmental impacts.

The most recent expertise, is focused on the development of Sustainable Mobility Plans (SUMPs). She participated in the National Commission for the development of the Sustainable Mobility Plans’ specifications, which was organized by the Greek Ministry of Transport while in parallel, she led the project of HIT, which offered technical support to the Green Fund in order to select the 150 Municipalities that were financed for developing their SUMPs.

She is an author and co-author of many papers that were published in scientific journals or conferences’ proceedings while she is participating-representing HIT - in many committees of scientific and other transport related organizations, such as UITP, POLIS, CIVITAS, ECTRI.

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Dr. Afroditi Anagnostopoulou is an operational researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), experienced in project management and transport economics overseeing the “Economic and Social Impacts of Transport Systems” laboratory. Her research interest lies in the areas of operational research, transport economics, supply chain and logistics. She participates in several research projects and she focuses on the development of advanced and sophisticated optimization algorithms for complex real-life transport problems.

She holds a BSc in Management Science and Technology from the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and an MSc in Computer Science from the University College London (UCL). She has also received a PhD in Operations Research from the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).

She is a member of the Hellenic Operational Research Society (HELORS) and the Economic Chamber of Greece (ECG). She is also a research fellow in the Operations Research & Decision Systems Centre (ORDeS) of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB). She is listed in “Who's Who in the World” (2015, 2016) and her work has been published in international academic journals (including the first-tiered Transportation Science journal) and presented in more than 20 national and international conferences (including the 7th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis - TRISTAN VII, 1st and 3rd Annual Conference of the EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization).

Mr. Dimitris Margaritis, BSc in Automotive Eng, MSc in Environment Protection, and graduate of the Pedagogical and Technological Education institute. He is also PhD and Dipl.-Ing. Mechanical Engineer candidate, both at AUTh.

He is a Research Associate primarily in the area of Traffic Safety and Transport Greening. Since 2006 he works at CERTH/HIT. He is in charge of the “Environmental and Energy Impacts of Transport Systems” Lab and responsible for maintaining the ISO 9001-2008 quality system.

From 1999-2006 he worked for the Crash Safety department at TNO Automotive in The Netherlands. He contributed to the establishment of the first in-depth accident research team in The Netherlands. Among his accident analysis activities, he participated in EuroNCAP crash tests and he was also doing video analysis of vehicle crash tests and of vehicle safety features tests.

He has been involved in more than 35 national (Greek and Dutch) and EU research projects. He jointed networks such as EEVC WG21, APSN, and was the national representative in ITF/OECD Working Group on Motorcyclists Safety. He joins ETSC, CARE, ECTRI TWG-B, EGVIA, EEA and HELIEV (a member of AVERE).

He has authored and co-authored more than 40 journal and refereed conference articles. He speaks very well English and Dutch, and notion French.

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Dr. Salanova was born in Barcelona in 1983 and graduated from the Polytechnic School of the University of Catalonia (U.P.C.), Department of Civil Engineer in 2007. In 2008-2009 he acquired the MSc on Design, Organization and Management of Transportation Systems of the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki. In 2010-2013 he conducted his PhD research in the Polytechnic School of the University of Catalonia (U.P.C.) with dissertation title “modelling of taxicab fleets in urban environment”. Currently he is finalizing the Data Science Specialization at the Johns Hopkins University. The year 2007 he worked for the CENIT (Center for Innovation in Transport) in Barcelona. He works in the Hellenic Institute of Transport since 2008, where he is leading the “Data collection and processing, algorithm design, and use of specialized transport software packages” laboratory. His scientific interests concern research and developments in transport and mostly in algorithm and model development, mobility, intermodal transport and logistics as well as Data Science and Big Data at the transport domain. He speaks fluently Catalan and Spanish and very well Greek and English.

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Stella Nikolaou was born in 1976 in Athens, Greece. She is a software programmer and she is involved in the research team of the Hellenic Institute of Transport dealing with driver behaviour monitoring and human factors impact on road safety.

She has been involved in various national and European research projects, whereas her main research focus includes the monitoring of the driver behaviour for the enhancement of road safety through the use of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS), studies of human sleep for safety enhancement in industrial applications and the reduction of accidents attributed to operator’s lack of alertness, as well as the development of high-end user interfaces for several industrial applications.

Annie Kortsari is a research associate at the Hellenic Institute of Transport at the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. She holds a degree in civil engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Macedonia, Greece. She is currently a PhD candidate in the area of railway transport with her Thesis focusing on railway freight transport between Europe and Asia. She has been working in the Institute since 2005 and has participated in numerous research projects and transport studies. Her expertise is on railway transport systems, mobility management, seasonal transport demand management, and intelligent transport systems. She is the author of many scientific papers.

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Mrs. Evangelia Chrisohoou is an associate researcher at the Center for Research and Technology Hellas / Hellenic Institute of Transport since 2006. She is a mathematician with an MSc in “Statistics and Operational Research”. She is a PhD candidate in Mechanical Engineering at School of Engineering of University of Thessaly, in the field of optimization problems. Her research interests are in transportation planning and management; operational research applied in transportation problems fleet management and logistics; as well as statistical analysis of big traffic data and passively collected datasets relates to travel behavior and mobility schemes. Her work has been published in international academic journals (such as Journal of the Transportation Research Board) and presented in international conferences (such as Transportation Research Board Annual Meetings TRB, European Conference on Operational Research EURO - INFORMS). 

Bartholomew-Michael Vassilantonakis was born in Athens, Greece, in 1976 and holds a Bachelor’s degree BEng in Control and Computer Systems Engineering, from the University of Westminster in London, as well as an MSc in Computer Systems & Networks, from South Bank University in London.

At the same time worked at several companies, in London area, as technician and then as computer systems and networks, engineer and administrator. By returning to his home country worked as IT Supervisor at an international company on consumer research.

Since 2006 he works at H.I.T. as IT and application development supervisor with main tasks the well-functioning of IT and networks infrastructure, the development and implementation of IT policies, the supervision of procurement and subcontracting for IT equipment (Hardware/Software) and supervision, design and development for software application (Web, Apps & Desktop) for H.I.T.’s projects as a developer. He has been involved in several European, transnational and domestic projects in different fields many of which involved in mobility management, freight, ITS and ICT.

Over the years, he gained experience in Software Engineering and Development as well as in Data Management Systems.

Relevant experience has been achieved in the field of transport observatories, freight and logistics and mobility systems with my engagement on several national and European ITS and platform oriented projects over the years in different fields of transportation systems. His involvement on those projects consist of the development of the appropriate services, integration of different systems, the database structure, architecture and design and data analysis for the development of the appropriate goal on each project.

His technical skills consist of use and management of several operating systems, servers and development tools, such as Windows Servers, Visual Studio, MS SQL Server, SharePoint, ArcGIS Server, MS Exchange, Systems Operations Management, VMWare e.t.c.. His programming and databases skills contains development and management of RDBMS in SQL Server, MySQL and development and usage in .NET (C#/VB.NET/ASP.NET), SQL, SQL Spatial, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, AJAX, Google Maps/Charts API, Bing Maps API, Share Point, Java, PHP. The hardware technical skills consist of implementation, management, maintenance and problem solving of IT infrastructure such as server and workstations as well as networks infrastructure for routers, switches, firewalls e.t.c..

Pavlos Spanidis was born in Veria in 1980. He is has graduated as a Software Engineer from Salford University of England (BSc in 2003) and he is specialized in Telecommunications (MSc in 2004) in software development for NOKIA cell phones in Symbian OS in Lancaster University of England. He speaks fluently English and well German. From 2006 he is a research associate of the Hellenic Institute of Transports with main specialized areas the development of software for people with disabilities and also the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (A.D.A.S.). Full CV

Ms. Eleni Chalkia, is a Civil engineer of the Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki with MSc in Transportation system management and design. She works as an Associated Researcher in the Hellenic Institute of Transport since 2008. She has participated in many EU projects since FP7. The main fields of research are road safety, transportation management, public transport, ITS, VRUs, children transportation to and from school.  Full CV

Aristides Halatsis is Dipl. Civil Engineer with post-graduate studies in Logistics (MSc in Logistics & Transportation) and Business Administration (MBA). He has more than 20 years of professional experience in the fields of freight transport & logistics, port operations/management, intermodal nodes & transport, and proven experience in managing & leading project teams, having worked with clients from both the private & public sector. He has served as a CEO of the Kavala Port Authority with main focus areas the development of the freight and cruise business. He has served as an External expert to the Marco Polo II Programme of the CEC, External Expert to the TEN-T Programme of the CEC, Evaluator to the Information Society Programme (ICT for Transport) of the CEC, Evaluator to the Smart Cities and Communities and Social Innovation Programme (Last Mile Logistics) – Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), and Evaluator to the ERA-NET MARTEC (Maritime Technologies).

Dr. Nikos Dimokas obtained his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Crete, Greece, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2010. During August 2001 - December 2005 he worked as a research assistant in the Information Systems Laboratory of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). During September 2010 – September 2012 he worked as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Western Macedonia.  Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Transport of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas. His research interests lie in the area of Distributed Systems and Data Management. In particular, his research focuses on distributed systems over wireless networks (wireless sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks, vehicular ad hoc networks), mobile and pervasive computing with emphasis on data management and data dissemination,  mobile networks and applications, web information retrieval (social network analysis) and ambient intelligence framework services and their personalization, with emphasis on elderly and disabled users. He has participated in 6 European and national research projects. He holds 6 publications in international conferences, 2 in national conferences, 5 in scientific journals and 2 in book chapters.  He has also been a reviewer for many scientific journals and conferences like IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transaction on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, the Computer Journal, Wireless Networks etc. Finally, he has received over 210 citations from other scientific publication.

Ioannis Symeonidis is a Mechanical Engineer researcher.

His studies include the mechanical engineering diploma from AUTH- Thessaloniki, Master Rechereche in modeling and simulation of the musculoskeletal system from ENSAM- Paris, Ph.D. student with subject the study of head and neck biomechanics of motorcyclists before and during impact in the medical department of LMU- Munich while soon he is completing a Master of Science in Information Technology in HOU- Patras.

He has studied and carried out research in various EU institutions including the Technical University of Munich, the Polytechnic School of Milan, the CISAP team of the University of Florence, the IMFS institute of ULP in Strasbourg, the INRETS institute in Marseille, the TNO in Eindhoven and the ECIP institute of the University of Navarra among others. He has several publications in international scientific journals and conferences.

He is a Marie Curie fellow and responsible for the MC- CIG project ISABELLE. His research interests are in the field of biomechanics relative to two wheelers and light vehicle safety, biomechanics of impact, motion capture, motor rehabilitation and virtual reality and simulators.

Mrs. Maria Tsami is a Spatial Planning and Development Engineer (MSc) and a PhD candidate in the department of Civil Engineering at the University of Thessaly. She is also holding an MSc degree in the field of Information and Communication Computer Systems, specializing in Intelligent Computer Systems. Since 2011, she is a scientific researcher of the Traffic, Transportation and Logistics Laboratory at the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Thessaly, and since 2012, she is a scientific researcher of the Hellenic Institute of Transport. Her core research activity focuses on dynamic transit modeling taking into account information and quality of service indicators. She has been involved in numerous national and European projects and actions related to transportation planning and monitoring (urban-interurban), road safety, resilience management, social behavior of travelers, transit assignment and intelligent transportation systems. A shortlist of selected projects of her research involvement includes: “AUTOPILOT: AUTOmated driving Progressed by Internet Of Things ” (HORIZON 2020), “SocialCar: Open social transport network for urban approach to carpooling” (HORIZON 2020), “IN LIFE: Independent Living support Functions for the Elderly”(HORIZON 2020), “RESOLUTE: RESilience management guidelines and Operationalization applied to Urban Transport Environment” (HORIZON 2020), “City-HUB”(FP7), “SEE-ITS: South East Europe-Intelligent Transport Systems” (FP7), “e-drive Academy” (Hellenic Ministry of Transport), “Traveler behavioral modelling” (Hellenic Ministry of Education). She has also conducted research regarding the social networks, including game theory analysis, social networks effects and collective intelligence. She is member of the COST action TU1004 (Modelling Public Transport Passenger Flows in the Era of Intelligent Transport Systems) and the COST action TU1305 (Social networks and travel behaviour). She has participated in numerous national and international conferences and workshops, and she has in her record more than 60 publications including scientific papers published in journals and conference proceedings, project deliverables, scientific books and book chapters.

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Aggelakakis Aggelos, born in Thessaloniki in 1982, is a Dipl. Engineer of Planning and Regional Development, graduating in 2005 from the corresponding department of the University of Thessaly. In 2007, he acquired his MSc diploma on “Planning, Organization and Management of Transport Systems” from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). Since March 2007 and for specified periods, he was a research associate at the Transport Engineering Laboratory of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with participation in European and National Research Programmes. He has participated in many traffic studies in Greece and Cyprus in cooperation with private companies. Ηe is a PhD candidate in the fields of Transportation Planning and Environmental Capacity. He has been a research associate at Hellenic Institute of Transport (Centre for Research and Technology Hellas) since December 2013. Full CV

Panagiotis Liapis has graduated from the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (formerly ASOEE) and holds an MSc in Maritime studies of the University of Piraeus, specializing in International Transport.

He has born in Piraeus in 1975.He graduated from the Lycée Léonin in 1993, a francophone non-profit private school and has been an active member of the Alumni Association since then. He holds the Diplôme D'études Françaises (Sorbonne II) and the Proficiency in English both from Cambridge and Michigan Universities.

He served in the Greek Army as a Cadet Officer where he served as a Controller of Expenditures from 1999 to 2001 when he has been dismissed with a recommendation letter for the quality of his services by his Chief commanding officer. Since 2001, he has been occupied in a private consulting firm as an economist, part of a study group responsible for data collection/processing and the preparation of cost benefit analysis studies in the Transport Sector.

Then, in 2004 he started his career in the Hellenic Institute of Transport, as an assisting financial officer on project monitoring and coordination in FP6 research projects, until 2008. At the same time, he attended the Post Graduate program in Maritime studies of the University of Piraeus where he graduated in 2007 as top in his class. He regained his position in the Hellenic Institute of Transport in 2014, after being occupied in several private companies in the insurance and car repairing sector, specializing in traffic accident compensation claims management.

Since then, he is in charge of the financial and administrative monitoring of FP7 research projects and participates in the preparation and submission of H2020 project proposals.

Leonidas Parodos was born in Thessaloniki in 1987 and is working as a Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) since July 2017.

He is a graduate of the Business Administration Department of the University of Macedonia in 2010 and he obtained his M.Sc. in Maritime Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2012.

Starting from 2013 he worked in Logistics companies especially in the field of national, international and multimodal transport as a Trade Lane Manager in South East Europe (EKOL Logistics).

His main business activity focuses on International and Urban Freight transport and Logistics. More specifically, in July 2017 he started working at the Hellenic Institute of Transport as a research associate. Since joining HIT he has been involved in various European projects related to green freight Logistics (AEOLIX, NOVELOG). His main responsibilities are the development of project deliverables, the collection and analysis of maritime and urban freight transport data and the capitalization of the projects outcomes.