Polydoropoulou Amalia

Amalia Polydoropoulou (AP) is a Professor at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport (STT), University of the Aegean and Director of the Transportation and Decision-Making Laboratory, as well as founder of the Living Lab of Chios on Resilience and Climate Change. AP’s areas of research include transportation systems, transportation demand, market research, and econometrics. She has extensive experience on primary data collection, demand modelling and forecasting techniques (choice, willingness to pay behaviour, distributed  Values-of-Time, etc.), as well as participatory and co-creation  techniques with various stake-holders. She has conducted worldwide market research (including both revealed and stated preferences data collection and modeling) on user response to the introduction of new products and services (e.g. Autonomous Vehicles, Mobility as a Service, Sharing and Active Transport Systems, Urban Air Mobility, etc.). Recent research involves factors influencing individuals’ overall happiness and well-being and decision making under extreme conditions such as fires or floods caused by climate change.  She has widely published in the academic and professional literature. She has participated as a Project Coordinator, Work Package or Working Group Leader in several EU funded projects such as: CLIMAS, JUSTSAFE, SPINE, Gemini, GREENLOG, GREENTURN, MaaSolutions, Perseus, We-Transform, HARMONY, WISE-ACT, MaaS4EU, OPTIMUM, USMART, GRETIA, HERMES, INNOSUTRA, PACTS, iPORTS, POET, SLIM-VRT, URIT. She is the Coordinator of RESPORTS (Resilient Ports) funded by the Green Funding Agency, Department of Environment, in Greece, and the National Intelligent Research Infrastructure for Shipping, Supply chain, Transport and Logistics (EN.I.R.I.S.S.T.) and well as EN.I.R.I.S.S.T.+ funded by the General Secretariat For Research And Innovation (GSRI) in Greece. She has served as a Board Member of International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR.org), and IKY -the Greek National Scholarship Foundation (2020-2024). She has been accepted as a Visiting Professorial Fellow (Level E) at CVEN, Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI), UNSW, Australia (March-June, 2025) where she will conduct research related to climate change mitigation and adaptation behaviour. As a consultant she has worked for a number of reputable private companies and public agencies in transportation including Rand Europe, NL, John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, IBI Group in Boston, UK, and Athens, International Port Managers (IPM), and CERN.