The success of the Seminar is linked to the active participation of senior professionals (‘tutors’), and in particular to the advices and feedbacks they may give before and during the seminar to the young researcher.
The tutors are senior researchers, holding a PhD or having comparable proven expertise. They are very well experienced in research, presentation and paper writing and have teaching, supervising and/or training competences.
The tutors are expected to train, support, and help the young researchers to progress in their writing and communication skills. Furthermore, they have a key role in motivating, inspiring and empowering the young generation to enjoy research and embrace a scientific career.
Transport research domains
- Transport economics, policy, and transport behaviour
- Transport sustainability and environment
- Transport safety
- Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) & Traffic management
- Transport logistics and freight
- Transport engineering
Nominations
Nominations of tutors shall be done by the Members’ organizations by sending experts’ name and contact details to Sandra Vieira Gomes (sandravieira@lnec.pt) and Ana Pereira (ana.pereira@ectri.org).
Deadlines
June 22, 2022: Launch of the call for tutors nomination
September 30, 2022: Deadline for nomination of tutors > Deadline extended until October 17, 2022
November 30, 2022: Notification on tutors appointment
February – May 2023: Exchange between tutors and young researchers
May 15-17, 2023: Participation in the YRS 2023
More information
🔎 Guidelines for tutors (last update 22/06/2022)
List of tutors
Agnieszka Stelling
Ph.D., Researcher and project manager at SWOV – Institute for Road Safety Research, The Hague, The Netherlands
Agnieszka Stelling, PhD is a cognitive psychologist working as a researcher and project manager at SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research. She is an expert in road safety, especially road user behaviour, distraction in traffic, behaviour of speed pedelec-riders and the role of auditory information in risk perception. She is also involved in SWOV’s in-depth studies into road traffic crashes. In 2018 she obtained her PhD at Delft University of Technology on the thesis ‘Cycling safe and sound; The impact of quiet electric cars, listening to music and conversing on the phone on cyclists’ auditory perception and cycling safety’. Agnieszka has published various articles in scientific journals like Accident Analysis and Prevention and Transportation Research Part F – Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, and contributed to many national and international scientific conferences. She has also extensive teaching and tutoring experience: in the past she worked as a teacher and a private tutor, at SWOV she has been supervising various master students and she is a mentor to new colleagues.
Claude Rospars
Ph.D., Senior Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France
Senior Researcher (PhD, 1997) in Structural mechanics, sustainability serviceability and durability of massive reinforced concrete works. Recent research focuses on damage detection using vibrating properties for inspection and maintenance of infrastructures and bridges. From October 2019 to March 2022, Scientific Director and Technical manager of the French association for Innovation Research and Experimentation in Civil Engineering (IREX). Since March 2022, members of scientific coordination of University Gustave Eiffel.
Ingrid van Schagen
Senior Researcher at SWOV – Institute for Road Safety Research, The Hague, The Netherlands
Ingrid van Schagen graduated from Groningen University, The Netherlands, as a research psychologist. Since 1997 she has worked as a senior researcher at SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research in the Netherlands and has been involved in many national and international projects on a variety of road safety topics, including road safety audits, fatigue, the interaction between road user behaviour and road design, speed and speed management, and distraction. She has been involved in a variety of projects and working groups for the European Commission, ITF/OECD and other international organizations. Since 2018 she is secretary of the Forum of European Road Safety Research Institutes (FERSI). Before joining SWOV, Ingrid van Schagen worked for the European Transport Safety Council in Brussels and the Transport Research Centre of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is (co)-author of a substantial number of publications covering various areas of road safety.
Irina Yatskiv
Dr. Sc. Eng., Professor at TSI – Transport and Telecommunication Institute (Transporta un sakaru institūts), University in Riga, Latvia
Prof. Dr. Irina Yatskiv (Jackiva) is a professor of Mathematical Methods and Modelling Department, Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI). She is founder and leading researcher in the Laboratory of Applied Systems and has participated in more than 20 European and Latvian research projects and more than 14 national transportation studies, and was scientific coordinator in 8 of them. She is/was national representative and management committee member of COST Actions CA16222 (WISE-ACT), TU1306 (CYBERPARKS), TU1004, TU0903, TU0804 and TU0801. She has great experience in coordinating different kind of projects in frame of Horizon 2020, FP, INTERREG, BSR programmes, she was coordinator of Horizon 2020 project “Enhancing excellence and innovation capacity in sustainable transport interchanges” (ALLIANCE). More than 15 years she is chair of Org. Committee and co-chair of Prog. Committee of Annual International Multidisciplinary Conference “Reliability and Statistics in Transportation and Communication (proceedings are published by Springer from 2018). Prof. Dr. I.Yatskiv is leading researcher in field of transport modelling and data analysis. She is an Expert in Transport and Logistics at the Latvian Council for Science (from 2008-…) and member of the promotion committee of the doctoral program in Telematic and Logistics. 7 PhD are defended with her supervision, 5 of them – female. All of her PHD students were involved in EU projects (COST Actions, ALLIANCE etc.). Prof. I.Yatskiv is director of MSc programme in Transport and Logistics from 2014. Her personal mission in supporting primarily women in scientific activities, for example, by increasing the number of women who are preparing for the role of a transport systems analyst and a specialist in systems modeling.
Ivo Dostál
Researcher at CDV – Transport Research Centre (Centrum Dopravního Výzkumu), Brno, Czechia
Graduated from Masaryk University of Brno, Faculty of Science and Faculty of Informatics in 2001. He started to work in Transport Research Centre as a researcher after completing obligatory civilian service in 2003. Attendee of specialized course on transport planning (2005 – Seattle, USA). His major field of interest are environmental issues in transport, especially strategic and policy-oriented research to promote sustainability in transport sector, public transport, measures to reduce environmental burden from transport and effects of transport and land use. He takes part in many national and international research projects (R&D, FP6, EHP, Interreg, H2020), expert studies and support activities for Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Environment and regional and municipal administrations. He is member of the Scientific and Expert Committee of IENE and of the Expert group in the Working Group Ministerial Council for Sustainable Development for Local Agenda 21.
Jan Andersson
Ph.D., Professor at VTI – Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut), Linköping, Sweden
Jan Andersson, VTI (professor in human-machine interaction with) have a background in cognitive psychology, and are affiliated to Linkoping University, Sweden). Traffic safety and mobility are the main research areas and a) remote operations of automated cars, b) bicycling, c) traffic medicine and d) train traffic management in particular.
Jiří Ambros
Ph.D., Senior Researcher at CDV – Transport Research Centre (Centrum Dopravního Výzkumu), Brno, Czechia
Jiří graduated at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering in 2002. Since 2004, he has worked as a Researcher in CDV – Transport Research Centre, focusing on road safety evaluations (from data collection and their analysis to road safety measures effectiveness assessment), using both direct and indirect safety measures and various statistical methods. In 2012, Jiří was awarded for Best Young Researcher Paper at 25th ICTCT workshop. In following years, he deepened his education by external studies at Queensland University of Technology, Australia (Graduate Certificate in Road Safety) and Hasselt University, Belgium (Road safety evaluation: methods and applications). In 2015, he concluded his PhD study at Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Transportation Sciences by defending the doctoral thesis on “Road traffic safety evaluation using statistical modelling”. In 2017, he was a Visiting Researcher with Australian Road Research Board (Melbourne, Australia). Jiří is a panel member of ETSC Road Safety Performance Index (PIN) program, an institutional member of International Co-operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety (ICTCT) and a member of International Traffic Safety Data and Analysis Group (IRTAD).
João Cardoso
Ph.D., Principal Researcher at LNEC – National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil), Lisbon, Portugal
João Lourenço Cardoso obtained his degree in Civil Engineering at the Lisbon Technical University in 1982. In 1996 he obtained his PhD degree at the same University, with the road safety study on the Relations between two-lane, two-way non-urban road characteristics, their traffic speed parameters and their road accident distributions. He obtained the degree of Habilitated to Research Coordination at the Portuguese National Civil Engineering Laboratory (LNEC) in 2007. Currently he his senior research officer at LNEC and head of the Planning, Traffic and Safety Division of the Transportation Department. He is currently interested in infrastructure road safety management, statistical modelling of road accident frequency and severity, vulnerable road users’ safety, traffic micro-simulation and road accident reconstruction.
Laurent Carnis
Ph.D., Senior Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel, Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, France
Laurent Carnis holds a Phd in Economics from University Reims-Champagne-Ardenne. He is a senior researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel. He is the author of several articles and books related with road safety issues. His main fields of research concern speed regulation and enforcement, governance and public policy analyis of road safety measures. More recently, his research focus upon safe system approach. He is also an international expert for different international organisations and a member of the French Committee of Experts advising the Road Safety Interministerial Delegation. He was a tutor during the last three Young Research Seminars.
Mette Møller
Ph.D., Senior Researcher at DTU – Technical University of Denmark (Danmarks Tekniske Universitet)
Lyngby, Copenhagen, Denmark
Senior researcher at the Technical University of Denmark and head of the Transport Psychology Section. My main research area is road safety, road user behaviour and behaviour change. My recent research includes two cognitive-behavioural intervention studies aiming to reduce road anger and speeding. It also includes an extensive evaluation study (with several sub-studies) regarding Accompanied driving in Denmark, mobile-phone use among cyclists, crash analysis etc.
Miguel Navarro-Ligero
Ph.D., Researcher at UPM – Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Madrid, Spain
Miguel L. Navarro-Ligero (PhD in Spatial Planning and Environmental Assessment) is postdoctoral researcher at the Transport Research Centre (TRANSyT) of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), currently endorsed by a “Juan de la Cierva” training grant from the Spanish Research Agency. His research work covers the integration of foresight techniques and collaborative practices in transport and urban planning, contributing to SIM4PLAN, VIR2ALL and NEXT4MOB national research projects.
Peter Lubrich
Scientific Assistant at BASt – Federal Highway Research Institute (Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Peter Lubrich is a Scientific Assistant at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt), Germany. He is concerned with concepts and pilot deployments of interoperable data exchange in the context of traffic information and traffic management. He has special expertise in the areas of metadata, data quality and data platforms. Furthermore, he is further pursuing a PhD in the area of Smart Parking Systems.
Sogol Kharrazi
Ph.D., Senior Researcher at VTI – Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut), Linköping, Sweden
Sogol Kharrazi is a senior researcher at VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. She also works as an adjunct associate professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University. Her research interests include vehicle dynamics and safety, transport sustainability, and intelligent transport systems. She received her B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and her M.Sc. degree in automotive engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. She received a PhD degree in machine and vehicle systems from Chalmers University of Technology in 2012.
Tobias Panwinkler
Research Associate at BASt – Federal Highway Research Institute (Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen), Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Tobias Panwinkler is a researcher at the department for behaviour and safety (Currently in section Safety Concepts and Safety Communication, previously in section Accident Statistics and Accident Analytics) of the German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) in Bergisch Gladbach (Germany). His research focus is on road safety concepts and accident analysis of vulnerable road users, especially cyclists. Before joining BASt, he conducted research on demography, migration and mobility at the research institutions Nordregio (Stockholm, Sweden), ÖIR (Vienna, Austria) and BBSR (Bonn, Germany). After graduating as a civil engineer from Federal Higher Technical Institute Linz 1 (Austria), he studied spatial research and spatial planning at the Geographical Institutes of the Universities of Vienna (Austria) and Turku (Finland) and is currently doing his PhD at the Department of Transportation Planning at TU Dortmund University (Germany).