Dr. Maria Morfoulaki is an Operational Scientist A’, working at CERTH-HIT since 2001. She is the head of the Laboratory “Demand and Mobility Management and Development of Sustainable Mobility Systems” of HIT. She is a Transportation Engineer having a great experience on Transportation Planning Models, Public Transport Operational and Quality issues and Urban Sustainable Transport issues.
She obtained her diploma as a Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1995, while in 2004 she presented her Ph.D in the field of Public Transport Quality Measures. In 2010 she acquired her MSc diploma on Systems’ Simulation from the University of Thessaly.
Her professional experience covers a wide range of studies and research programs with subjects related to urban mobility issues, traffic management, transportation master plans, transportation planning using simulation analysis and transportation systems’ management emphasizing on the quality, the safety and the reduction of environmental impacts.
The most recent expertise, is focused on the development of Sustainable Mobility Plans (SUMPs). She participated in the National Commission for the development of the Sustainable Mobility Plans’ specifications, which was organized by the Greek Ministry of Transport while in parallel, she led the project of HIT, which offered technical support to the Green Fund in order to select the 150 Municipalities that were financed for developing their SUMPs.
She is an author and co-author of many papers that were published in scientific journals or conferences’ proceedings while she is participating-representing HIT - in many committees of scientific and other transport related organizations, such as UITP, POLIS, CIVITAS, ECTRI.