Steering Committee

The Steering Committee is the scientific body of the Seminar, established to provide scientific guidance and support, by:

• Reviewing and selecting the abstracts proposed by the Young Researchers,
• Elaborating the programme and distributing the abstracts by session,
• Reviewing the tutors’ CVs and distributing the sessions among the selected tutors,
• Ensuring that the exchanges between tutors and young researchers are running smoothly and effectively, and advise otherwise,
• Developing the cross-cutting sessions and leading on their organization at the event,
• Participating in the scientific sessions and providing feedbacks to presentations, and organizing the final feedbacks session,
• Ensuring the proper running of the Seminar activities,
• Nominating the three best oral and written presentations for the awards, in cooperation with the tutors.

The Steering Committee is composed by one representative of each supporting associations (i.e. ECTRI, FERSI, FEHRL, EURNEX and HUMANIST), one representative from the previous host and the YRS 2025 host team.

From the YRS 2025 host:

From ECTRI: Jan Andersson, Professor at The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI, Sweden)

From FEHRL: Jindřich Frič, Director at Transport Research Centre (CDV, Czech Republic)

From FERSI: Evangelia (Lila) Gaitanidou, Head of Road Safety & Security Lab at Hellenic Institute of Transport (CERTH-HIT, Greece)

From EURNEX: Armando Carrillo Zanuy, Secretary General at EURNEX (EURNEX, Germany)

From HUMANIST: Mette Møller, Senior Researcher at Technical University of Denmark (DTU, Denmark)

From the YRS 2023 host: Sandra Vieira, Researcher at National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC, Portugal)

Organising Committee

The Organising Committee is the Seminar event planner and executor. It is composed by representatives of the host Institute and representatives from the ECTRI team.

Ursula Blume, Research coordinator at staff unit Controlling, QM, International Cooperation at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt, Germany) and Organising Committee Chair

Dr.-Ing. Christine Kellermann-Kinner, Deputy-head of staff unit Controlling, QM, International Cooperation at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt, Germany)

Kirsten Graf-Landmann, Research coordinator at staff unit Controlling, QM, International Cooperation at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt, Germany)

Dr. Karl-Josef Höhnscheid, Head of staff unit Controlling, QM, International Cooperation at the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt, Germany)

Caroline Alméras, Secretary General at ECTRI (ECTRI, Belgium)

Ana Pereira, Project and Communication Manager at ECTRI (ECTRI, Belgium)