Achilleas Petrou was born in Larisa in 1991 and has been working as a Research Associate at the Hellenic Institute of Transport (HIT) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) since August 2017. He received the Dipl. Eng. in Rural and Surveying Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2016. He fulfilled his internship in the company Egnatia Odos S.A. at the department of road safety. From 2009 to 2010, he served his military service in Greece
His main research interest focuses mainly on the field of regarding traffic flow modeling, model calibration, road traffic management. She is also an author of announcements in national and international conferences.