Christina Iliopoulou works as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, NTUA, where she received her PhD in 2019 in the field of optimal design of urban transport systems. For the completion of her doctoral dissertation, she received a research scholarship (2017-2019) from the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I). She holds a master’s degree in Transportation Technology and Policy with an excellent grade (GPA 4.0 / 4.0) from the University of California, Davis (2015) and a degree in Civil Engineering from NTUA with specialization in Transportation Engineering since 2013. Since 2014 he has been working on research projects in the field of urban transport systems (UC Davis, NTUA) while since 2020 he is a member of the Collaborating Teaching Staff of the Hellenic Open University. At the same time, she is a co-author of 18 publications in international scientific journals and 23 publications in conferences and conference proceedings, while she is a reviewer o in 15 international scientific journals. She is a member of the Association of Greek Transport Specialists, the TEE-TCG and the "Transit Management and Performance" committee of the international organization Transportation Research Board. Her main research interests include the design and operation of transport systems, focusing on the development and implementation of mathematical programming methods and artificial intelligence algorithms to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems.

Dr. Lambros Mitropoulos is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Technical University of Athens where he dealt with the effects of new technologies and autonomous vehicles and a research associate at the Hellenic Transport Institute (HIT) of the National Center for Research and Technological Development. He holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Brighton in 2005, a master’s degree in Transportation from Imperial College and University College London in 2006, and a Ph.D. Transportation Engineer from the University of Hawai’i in 2011. His research interests include sustainable transport, sustainability assessment, urban and public transport, alternative fuels and vehicle technologies, innovative mobility measures, rail transport and decision-making model. He also holds a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Hawaii where he has conducted research projects funded by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Hawai’i Department of Transportation (HDOT). Dr. Mitropoulos has been awarded with the first PIARC 2011 prize for publication on Sustainable Development. Dr. Mitropoulos was president of ITE student chapter at the University of Hawaii and a member of ASCE and SAE.