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 | Margarida Coelho
(margarida.coelho@ua.pt) | Prof. Margarida Coelho is Associate Professor with Habilitation ("Agregação") of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, Portugal. She is also Senior Researcher and serves as Vice-Diretor of the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation of the same university. Margarida Coelho finished her PhD at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - Technical University of Lisbon in 2005, within a partnership between IST and the Institute for Transportation Research and Education, of North Carolina State University, USA. She completed her Habilitation ("Provas de Agregação") on Mechanical Engineering in September 2020. She is the Scientific Coordinator of the research team on Smart mobility at the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Her research interests are: impacts of transportation systems (namely, traffic congestion, energy consumption, pollutant emissions and road safety), connected and automated mobility, life cycle assessment, active mobility, mobility in Port cities. Margarida Coelho has 115 scientific papers in SCI SCOPUS, published in international journals (such as the Transportation Research Part A and Part D, International Journal on Sustainable Transportation, Applied Energy, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, Science for Total Environment, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Sustainable Cities and Society, Atmospheric Environment, Transportation Research Record, etc.), besides other publications in book chapters and proceedings of scientific conferences. Her h-index is 22. Margarida Coelho has had extensive participation in transport-related projects. She is the PI of R&D Projects funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT) and the Luso-American Foundation / United States National Science Foundation (which involved partnerships with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education of North Carolina State University, the Old Dominion University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory). She is also Vice-Coordinator and/or participating member in several projects funded by FCT, SUDOE and INTERREG Europe Programmes. She is Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part D, Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IEEE Open Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. She has been invited for multiple committees (e.g., evaluation of PhD grants for the Portuguese Science and Technology, PhD defense committees) and for several seminars, both in European and US Universities (e.g., TU Wien, University of Salerno, University of Palermo, NY University at Abu Dhabi, Université Gustave Eiffel, North Carolina State University, etc.). She already supervised 5 PhD students and more than 60 Master students. Right now, she is supervising 9 PhD students and 8 Master students. She was the Chairwoman of EWGT2021 - EURO Working Group on Transportation Annual Meeting. She is a recognized Expert on Energy and Transportation by the Portuguese Association of Engineering. |
 | Jorge Bandeira
(jorgebandeira@ua.pt) | Jorge M. Bandeira is researcher at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and automation of the University of Aveiro. Currently, his research interests are focused on traffic and emissions modelling, eco-navigation, traffic assignment and network optimization, as well as Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems Impacts and mobility data.
He is PI of several projects including the European projects CISMOB of the INTERREG EUROPE program; the national project, PriMaaS and national projects InFLOWence and the Pilot action "Real-time information for public transport" founded by ERDF in the context of Interreg Europe Programm. Since 2018, he was invited to assume the role of vice coordinator of TEMA mobilizing project "Technologies for well being" . Jorge Bandeira is working as an evaluation expert for several international funding programs including COST action and Horizon 2020.
Between 2015 and 2018 Jorge Bandeira conducted postdoctoral research funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology at the University of Aveiro in cooperation with Braunschweig Technical University where he did several periods of research internships.
Bandeira obtained the PhD in Mechanical Engineering in December of 2013 at the University of Aveiro in collaboration with the Old Dominion University, VA USA with the thesis entitled "Road Traffic Information platform for energy and emissions savings". His previous studies include a graduate and master degree in environmental engineering and a master degree in Sustainable Energy Systems.
In 2013 he has been announced as the winner of the European Patent Office Innovation Contest - for his project on a framework for assessing eco-routing and traffic management strategies aimed at minimizing energy consumption and exposure to pollutants and traffic noise (category "smart transport and traffic management systems").
Since 2010, he presented several research papers in international scientific meetings such as the Transportation Research Board, World conference on Transport Research. Transport Research Arena, and European Work Group on Transportation, Transport and Air pollution. He is author and co-author of 50 publications indexed by Scopus.
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 | Paulo Fernandes
(paulo.fernandes@ua.pt) | Paulo Fernandes got his PhD in the Doctoral Programme in Mechanical Engineering in the University of Aveiro, in 2017. The thesis was considered to be deserving of praise and distinction by unanimity, resulting in 7 papers in international journals between 2015 and 2017. His current research interests include: 1) Road traffic emissions monitoring; 2) Emissions modelling; 3) Intersection design and control strategies, and 4) Simulation and analysis of transport systems, active modes, and new mobility forms.
Between 2017 and 2020, he worked as post-doc researcher and further as an Assistant Researcher in the MobiWise project at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA). He also worked at DICA-VE project as junior research at TEMA in the management of activities from research fellows, namely emissions monitoring and modelling (2020 and 2021). After that, he was junior research at TEMA in the Driving2Driverless project in activities related to the cost-benefit analysis of shared, autonomous, and electric vehicles services (2021). Currently, he has a contract as junior research at TEMA with his own project entitled "IDRIVE: Incorporating Driving Volatility Information into a Rating system to Inform drivers about Vehicle Emission rates".
He also got a post-graduation degree in Data Analysis for Business (2023) to increase his skills as transport data analyst, namely, statistic methods, data visualization tools, data mining and machine learning algorithms.
Since 2017, he supervised and/or supervises 5 master students in the Mechanical Engineering Integrated Master Course. Due to the collaboration with researchers from the North Carolina State University, University of Tennessee, University of Palermo, Institute of Telecommunications, TU Delft, University of Salerno, and University of Coimbra he has been improving his research skills in traffic theory, emissions monitoring, intelligent transport systems, road infrastructure, automated technology, automatic data collection methods, and noise modelling.
He has published 35 articles and 12 conference papers in SCOPUS indexed journals (19 as the main corresponding author, total of 639 citations and h-index of 16), some of them are top 20 most-cited Transport, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science journals according to the CiteScore 2022 rank, 3 book chapters, and 16 papers in international transport conferences.
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 | Eloísa Macedo
(macedo@ua.pt) | Eloísa Macedo, PhD, is a researcher at TEMA, University of Aveiro. She has a solid background in operational research applied to evaluating traffic-related impacts (also in a connected and automated environment) with a special focus on environmental, noise, safety and comfort components. She has been involved in supervising PhD, MSc and BSc students in the Mechanical Engineer and Computational Engineer courses. E. Macedo has been actively involved in R&D and interregional cooperation projects. E. Macedo has a broad track record of peer-reviewed scientific articles, impact assessment studies and policy recommendations in research areas extending from road safety to transport systems. E. Macedo has been involved in knowledge extension and dissemination activities for different audiences. She is a member of the scientific association EURO, APDIO, and EURO WISDOM Forum under the Public Relations Subcommittee.
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